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The origins and growth of this world city[Cape Town] parallels that of my family and the myriad of others who constituted its formative population. Its stories of conquest and domination, the pursuit of gain and love found - the ebb and flow of human need and triumph are contained in the life experience of the countless thousands who lived and worked in and who were this city. This thesis started off as a biographical discussion on my association with District One. The narrative of District One is about the topography of the land and people, while the archive of the area reflects a history of punishment, settlement, removal and memory.

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This study of wilderness areas in Scotland traces the changing concept of wilderness as it has evolved in response to the particular conditions of Scotland's physical geography and land use history; it describes, and broadly delimits, the land area which might at present be defined as wilderness; and it analyses the process by which this land has come to be recognised as the resource for a distinctive form of recreation. On the basis of data obtained from a large-scale questionnaire survey, the physical and perceptual attributes of this recreational use are discussed in detail, moving from the social characteristics and activity patterns of visitors to their motivations and their attitudes to wilderness areas and their qualities. As comparative background the discussion of the wilderness concept is set first against the context of evolving attitudes in Western Europe up to the Romantic Revolution of the eighteenth century; second, against the experience of the United States of America, where wilderness has attained its highest level of expression as a concept, and its greatest extent and importance as a form of land use for conservation and recreation; and third, against a brief review of the current status of wild land throughout the modern world. The study's main conclusion is that despite the widespread modification of its character by man, the Scottish wilderness retains some of the physical, and many of the perceptual, attributes and recreational values of absolute wilderness, and that these explain the high level of commitment of recreational users of the land. Some suggestions are offered for an approach to management, and for further research, which may promote the conservation of these values.