Signed by editor. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JOSHUA PENNY. Facsimile 1815
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See gift inscription to Prof J du P Scholtz by editor (see image). Facsimile of 1815 publication. South African Library Reprint Series 11, 1982. Hard cover with dust cover. Very good condition. Tightly bound, neat and clean. The dust cover has some fox spots. Under 1kg.
Arguably the most fascinating character to have lived like a Robinson Crusoe in the caves of Table Mountain, allegedly for 14 months, was one Joshua Penny. In Fountain Ravine above Camps Bay, not far from where “Blinkwater Johnny” hung out many years later, there is a cave which today bears Penny’s name. Penny was an American, born from a poor family at Long Island, New York on 12 September 1773. In 1815 he published his life story in New York in a sixty page pamphlet titled, “The Life and Adventures of Joshua Penny”. A lawyer, one Jeremiah Osborn, had assisted him in writing his memoirs.