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Department of English Language and Literature

Livingstone's cataract

dc:creator Plummer, Robert
dc:date.issued2011

Abstract

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In January 1860, the painter Thomas Baines returned to Cape Town in disgrace, having been dismissed from David Livingstone's expedition to explore the Kebrabasa rapids on the Zambesi River. Livingstone's Cataract is a historical novel that follows Baines's involvement with the expedition. It is written from Baines's point of view, in the first person...

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Department of English Language and Literature
Year dc:date.issued
2011

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Plummer, Robert

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12236
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oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12236

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Plummer, Robert. Livingstone's cataract. Department of English Language and Literature, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12236

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