Thomas Victor Bulpin can truly be described as a great South African writer,one who travelled the length and breadth of the country in search of history, places and peoples,whether they were black, white,coloured or Bushmen yellow.Essentially Bulpin was a travel writer but he really was more than that.Like his contemporary Lawrence Green, he revelled in making friends,discovering new flowers and plants,enjoying the various foods he found as well as the sounds and melodies of Africa,new and old.Whilst his books are well known with enticing titles like 'Shaka's Country','The Ivory Trail','The Hunter is Death' and so on, he also wrote more than 2000 booklets, leaflets and magazine features.He also published books.He was rightly described as the "Doyen "of African travel writers.
I shall concentrate on his books and below you will find a list which I am told is incomplete.I will welcome any additions.
I hope from time to time to enlarge on the subject of some of the titles which might be helpful in identifying a particular genre.
T.V.BULPIN.......PUBLISHED BOOK LIST.(Probably incomplete)
THE IVORY TRAIL
LOST TRAILS ON THE LOW VELD
SHAKA'S COUNTRY
TO THE SHORES OF NATAL
THE HUNTER IS DEATH
ISLANDS IN A FORGOTTEN SEA
TRAIL OF THE COPPER KING
THE GOLDEN REPUBLIC
THE WHITE WHIRLWIND
THE GREAT TREK AND THE ZULU COUNTRY
LOST TRAILS OF THE TRANSVAAL
TO THE BANKS OF THE ZAMBEZI
LOW VELD TRAILS
DISCOVERING SOUTHERN AFRICA
TICKEY: THE STORY OF A CLOWN
SOUTHERN AFRICA: LAND OF BEAUTY AND SPLENDOUR
SCENIC WONDERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO SOUTHERN AFRICA
STELLENBOSCH
BVAKENYA
TAVERN OF THE SEA
nb. any questions or information or availability of books can be addressed to:- doug. colnic@telkomsa.net
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