This Life(1st Edition) A Novel by KarelSchoeman, 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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 KarelSchoeman, 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 KarelSchoeman 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 KarelSchoeman 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 KarelSchoeman 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 KarelSchoeman 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. KarelSchoeman 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 KarelSchoeman 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 ..."
"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."
Promised Land(1st Edition) by KarelSchoeman 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 KarelSchoeman Paperback, 394 Pages, Published 2010 by Protea Boekhuis ISBN-13: 978-1-86919-384-3, ISBN: 1-86919-384-9
Klassiek reeks Hierdie lewe: Stemme 2 (Afrikaans Edition) by KarelSchoeman 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 KarelSchoeman Paperback, 127 Pages, Published 1994 by South African Library ISBN-13: 978-0-86968-112-1, ISBN: 0-86968-112-5
"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."
"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"