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Books by Karel Schoeman






This Life(1st Edition)
A Novel
by Karel Schoeman, Else Silke
Paperback, 210 Pages, Published 2015 by Archipelago
ISBN-13: 978-0-914671-15-2, ISBN: 0-914671-15-4

"This beautifully written novel, by one of South Africa's most celebrated writers, has an almost hypnotic power that draws the reader into one woman's life. As a post-apartheid novel, "This Life" considers both the past and future of the Afrikaner people through four generations of one family. In an elegiac narrator's tone, there is also a sense of compulsion in the narrator's attempts to understand the past and achieve reconciliation in ..."






Early Slavery at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1717
by Dr. Karel Schoeman
Hardcover, 485 Pages, Published 2012 by Protea Boekhuis
ISBN-13: 978-1-86919-147-4, ISBN: 1-86919-147-1

"The first slave reached the Cape in 1653, a year after the first white settler party under Jan van Riebeeck. Thousands more would follow. Slavery was to remain an institution here until the end of the Dutch period in 1795, and well beyond, for it was not until 1834, under British administration, that Cape slaves were finally emancipated. In Early Slavery at the Cape of Good Hope, Karel Schoeman describes the transplanting of slavery fro ..."






The Early Mission in South Africa, 1799-1819
by Dr. Karel Schoeman
Hardcover, 530 Pages, Published 2012 by Protea Boekhuis
ISBN-13: 978-1-919825-42-7, ISBN: 1-919825-42-8

"In 1799 four missionaries - two English and two Dutch - arrived at the Cape, having been sent out by the London missionary society. This is their story. Although mission work by the Moravians had begun some time before, this meant the commencement of large-scale mission work in South Africa, and initiated what might be called the 'golden age' of missionary activity in South Africa. The Early Mission, 1799 1819 consists of 17 essays, som ..."






This Life
by Karel Schoeman, Elsa Silke
Paperback, 227 Pages, Published 2005 by Human & Rosseau
ISBN-13: 978-0-7981-4552-7, ISBN: 0-7981-4552-8






'n Ander land
(Afrikaans Edition)
by Karel Schoeman
Paperback, 418 Pages, Published 2013 by Human & Rousseau
ISBN-13: 978-0-7981-4511-4, ISBN: 0-7981-4511-0

"Teen die einde van die negentiende eeu kom 'n middeljarige besoeker uit Europa in die binneland van Suid-Afrika aan. Versluis is 'n afsydige Nederlander wat na Bloemfontein kom om van tering te herstel. Hy verken die vreemde land en doen algaande kennis en begrip op van dít wat tot dusver vir hom vreemd was. Dit word ook, uiteindelik, 'n voorbereiding op die onafwendbare einde van die reis: die dood. Die "ander land" word nie net geogra ..."






Twee Kaapse Lewens
Henricus Aletta Beck En Die Samelewing Van Hul Tyd, 1702-1755 (Hardback)
by Karel Schoeman
Hardcover, Published 2013 by Protea Boekhuis, South Africa
ISBN-13: 978-1-86919-978-4, ISBN: 1-86919-978-2






Seven Khoi Lives
Cape Biographies of the Seventeenth Century
by Karel Schoeman
Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2009 by (Pretoria: Protea Book House, 2009) 9781869192785
ISBN-13: 978-1-86919-278-5, ISBN: 1-86919-278-8

"In Seven Khoi lives Karel Schoeman writes about seven Khoi men and women whose lives became inextricably linked to the VOC's settlement at the Cape in the seventeenth century."






Patrisiers and Prinse
Die Europese Samelewing En Die Stigting Van 'N Kolonie Aan Die Kaap, 1619-1715 (Afrikaans Edition)
by Karel Schoeman
Hardcover, 436 Pages, Published 2008 by Protea Boekhuis
ISBN-13: 978-1-86919-157-3, ISBN: 1-86919-157-9






Portrait of a Slave Society
The Cape of Good Hope, 1717-1795
by Dr. Karel Schoeman
Hardcover, 1,344 Pages, Published 2013 by Protea Boekhuis
ISBN-13: 978-1-86919-749-0, ISBN: 1-86919-749-6

"In this book, based on published sources, both primary and secondary, the available information on Cape slavery during the eighteenth century is placed in the wider context of Dutch colonial society during this period. The result, which is a sequel to Early Slavery at the Cape of Good Hope by the same author, is probably the fullest and most detailed survey of the subject to date. 'Slavery was to have a very long afterlife in South Afri ..."






Die Wereld Van Susanna Smit
(Afrikaans Edition)
by Karel Schoeman
Hardcover, 299 Pages, Published 2003 by Protea Boekhuis
ISBN-13: 978-1-86919-056-9, ISBN: 1-86919-056-4

"Outeur en historikus Karel Schoeman skets in hierdie werk 'n lewende beeld van Susanna Smit: nie net van haar persoonlike wedervarings nie, maar ook die agtergrond waarteen haar lewe afgespeel het: die onrustige tyd aan die Oosgrens, Susanna se verbintenis met Bethelsdorp en die vroee werksaamhede van die Londense Sendinggenootskap, die Groot Trek en die opkoms en ondergang van die Republiek Natalia. Susanna Smit was die suster van die ..."






Cape Lives of the Eighteenth Century(1st Edition)
by Dr. Karel Schoeman
Hardcover, 350 Pages, Published 2012 by Protea Boekhuis
ISBN-13: 978-1-86919-484-0, ISBN: 1-86919-484-5

"Presented in the form of biographies centering on a number of men, women and families varying in status and race, Cape Lives of the Eighteenth Century provides a vivid survey of the Cape of Good Hope at the end of the Dutch period, during a period of rapid and dramatic development and change for the colony. Written with non-South Africans in mind, these vivid biographies tell a story - even for non-historians."






The Griqua Captaincy of Philippolis, 1826-1861(1st Edition)
by Karel Schoeman
Hardcover, Published 2002 by Protea Book House
ISBN-13: 978-1-919825-39-7, ISBN: 1-919825-39-8






Promised Land(1st Edition)
by Karel Schoeman
Hardcover, 205 Pages, Published 1978 by Simon & Schuster
ISBN-13: 978-0-671-40031-6, ISBN: 0-671-40031-2

"At the end of the twentieth century in Black-ruled South Africa, George Neethling returns to the farm he inherited from his mother, encounters impoverished families doomed to perish in their dreams, and struggles to understand his mother's longing for her land"






Die Bosmans Van Drakenstein
1705-1842 (Afrikaans Edition)
by Karel Schoeman
Paperback, 394 Pages, Published 2010 by Protea Boekhuis
ISBN-13: 978-1-86919-384-3, ISBN: 1-86919-384-9






Na Die Geliefde Land
by Karel Schoeman
Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-7981-4828-3, ISBN: 0-7981-4828-4






Klassiek reeks
Hierdie lewe: Stemme 2 (Afrikaans Edition)
by Karel Schoeman
Paperback, 218 Pages, Published 2003 by Human & Rousseau
ISBN-13: 978-0-7981-4284-7, ISBN: 0-7981-4284-7

"In die verhaal van vier generasies van 'n boeregesin in die Roggeveld word die omwenteling weergegee wat in die loop van die negentiende eeu op die Suid-Afrikaanse platteland en in die Afrikaner-samelewing voltrek is."






Irma Stern(1st Edition)
The early years, 18941933 (General series / South African Library)
by Karel Schoeman
Paperback, 127 Pages, Published 1994 by South African Library
ISBN-13: 978-0-86968-112-1, ISBN: 0-86968-112-5






Another Country(Updated)
by Karel Schoeman, David Schalkwyk
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1994 by Picador
ISBN-13: 978-0-330-32763-3, ISBN: 0-330-32763-1

"Versluis, a solitary, well-off, rather rigid Dutchman, travels to Bloemfontein because he has TB. Here he comes into contact with fellow sufferers also seeking a cure, with the people who make up the white community of the raw South African town."






Another Country(1st Edition)
by Karel Schoeman, David Schalkwy, D. Schalkwyk
Hardcover, 311 Pages, Published 1992 by Trafalgar Square
ISBN-13: 978-1-85619-049-7, ISBN: 1-85619-049-8

"Versluis, a lonely, but well-to-do Dutchman, goes to Bloemfontein in hopes of alleviating his tuberculosis and encounters fellow sufferers trying to come to terms with the disease and their own mortality"






Promised Land
by Karel Schoeman, Marion V. Friedmann
Paperback, Published 1989 by Jonathan Ball Paperbacks, Johannesburg
ISBN-13: 978-0-86850-089-8, ISBN: 0-86850-089-5



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