Nechama Brodie > Quotes

“Within a little more than a century of the establishment of a permanent Dutch station at the Cape”
― Nechama Brodie, The Cape Town Book: A Guide to the City’s History, People and Places

“the collision of ocean currents and weather systems coming off Antarctica conspire to create rugged weather and ‘mean seas’ – rogue waves that have the power to topple supertankers.”
― Nechama Brodie, The Cape Town Book: A Guide to the City’s History, People and Places

“Archaeologists Hilary and Janette Deacon wisely noted that ‘there is no single truth in archaeological or historical interpretation’.”
― Nechama Brodie, The Cape Town Book: A Guide to the City’s History, People and Places

“The Cape Wildflower Season happens between August and October each year (depending on the weather). For several weeks during spring”
― Nechama Brodie, The Cape Town Book: A Guide to the City’s History, People and Places

“The various names used to describe South Africa’s first people”
― Nechama Brodie, The Cape Town Book: A Guide to the City’s History, People and Places

“The Cape honeybee”
― Nechama Brodie, The Cape Town Book: A Guide to the City’s History, People and Places

“The white Disa draconis orchid has developed different spur lengths to correspond to the lengths of the tongues of the flies that visit it; fly-pollinators in the lowlands have longer tongues”
― Nechama Brodie, The Cape Town Book: A Guide to the City’s History, People and Places