Cape Town: Tavern of the seas - Lawrence G. Green

The classic Cape Town: Tavern of the Seas by Lawrence Green was first published in 1948 and with many reprints more than 50 000 are in print. This does not include the number sold to Education Departments who adopted the book. Green was a charming man and a prolific writer. With the death of the much loved Green in 1973 and the collapse of the publishing house, Howard Timmins, a few years later, the book went out of print and has remained so for more than two decades.

This evergreen book deals with charming folksy subjects like the wine of the Cape; Table Mountain; the Atlantic coast; Cape Town carnivals; the streets, canals and shops; the story of Simon’s Town, Seal Island; Table Bay; shipwrecks; reputed sea monsters; blatjang and sambals; the Cape Flats and so on.

If you love South Africa, you will love this book.