The Cape of Good Hope, 1806-1872. Aspects of the life and times

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The Cape of Good Hope, 1806 to 1872: Aspects of the Life and Times of British Society in and around Cape Town is a book by Graham Viney and Phillida Brooke Simons, published in 1994 by The Brenthurst Press in South Africa. The book is part of the Brenthurst Second Series and is volume 10. 

The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky promontory in South Africa’s Western Cape province. It’s one of the most famous capes in maritime history, and was a key waypoint for sailors. The Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to record seeing the cape in 1488, which opened the first all-water route from Europe to Asia.