THE ALBANY JOURNALS OF THOMAS SHONE

xviii + 303pp., illus., map, hardback, d.w. spine faded, no. 310 of 500 copies, Graham's Town Series No. 12, Cape Town, 1992

"There are Settler diaries of greater political and historical significance, but there are few which document the everyday life of an ordinary man in a small community, so vividly. Thomas Shone's struggles with debt, liquor, the weather, and the problem of raising young children single-handedly, were compounded by his relationship with a married woman, and his sense of isolation within the community and of alienation from God. The dislocation caused by the frontier war of 1850-1853 is also recorded in this intensely personal document." Taken from book.