PALMER, Eve. The Plains of Camdeboo. London: Collins, 1966. First edition. Cloth, 320pp. Near fine in d/w with wear to spine ends. Four generations of Palmer's family have lived on the Karo; that great plain towards the southern tip of Africa, one of the world's oldest and greatest deserts. There is no aspect of life on the Plains of Camedebook that Palmer has not studied and has put them altogether in this work.
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PATON, Alan. South Africa Today. (New York): Public Affairs Pamphlets, 1951. First edition. "Public Affairs Pamphlet No. 175." Orig. printed green wrappers, 32pp. Near fine.
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PLIENINGER, Gustav. David Livingstone. Lebensbild des groben Entdeckers und Missionars......... Stuttgart: Drud un Berlag von Bebruder Kroner, 1885. Tall 8vo., orig. olive green cloth with elaborate pictorial decoration on the upper cover, 270pp. Bookplate, name, some minor wear to the foot of the spine but in fact a very nice copy of a pretty book.
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POPE-HENNESSY, James. Sins of the Fathers. A Study of the Atlantic Slave Traders 1441-1807. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1967). First edition. Cloth, 296pp. Covers marked o/w very good in d/w.
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POPE-HENNESSY, James. Verandah. Some Episodes in the Crown Colonies 1867-1889. London: George Allen & Unwin, (1964). First edition. Cloth, 313pp. A nice copy in a worn d/w.
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POWELL, E. Alexander. The Last Frontier The White Man's War for Civilisation In Africa. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1914. Later edition. (first published 1912). 8vo., orig. maroon cloth, 291pp. Rear e/paper ripped, rubber stamp on front free e/paper, cloth rubbed, a good copy.
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PROSPERI, Franco. Vanished Continent. An Italian Expedition to the Comoro Islands. London: Hutchinson, (1957). First edition. Cloth, 232pp. Near fine in a chipped and worn, good only d/w. A fascinating account of an expedition to Zanzibar, Madagascar and other Islands off the east coast of Africa, islands which , according to theory, were once joined to Africa and Asia. The object of the trip was to study the animal life and other natural features in light of this theory.
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REES, Coralie and Leslie. Westward from Cocos. Indian Ocean Travels. Sydney: Australian Publishing Company, (1956.) First edition. Cloth, 268pp. Fine in d/w. A journey from Australia to Britain by way of the Cocos Islands, Mauritius, South Africa, Rhodesia, Portugues eEast Africa and the coast of Tanganyika and Kenya. A fascinating account including an encounter with witch doctors, wild animals, gold mines, ostrich farms, etc.
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REY, C.F. The Real Abyssinia. London: Seeley and Service, nd. (193-?) First edition. Cloth, 291pp. A nice copy.
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RICHARDS, Audrey. Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia: An Economic Study of the Bemba Tribe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1961). Reprint. (first published 1913). Cloth, xix, 425pp. Corner clipped from front e/paper o/w fine in a nice d/w. "Although primarily concerned with the production, distribution and consumption of food, and with conditions of labour and standard os living, this book gives a vivid picture of the social structure of the Bemba, their political organization and functions of the chief, systems of land-tenure, kinship groupings, and the who complex of economic, social and magico-religious factors which arise in any community."
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ROOME, J.W. Through the Lands of Nyanza. London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, nd. (193-?) First edition. Cloth, 208pp. Spine a bit faded o/w fine. A missionary account of Uganda; its geography, native peoples and customs, and of course, the missions.
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ROSCOE, John. The Banyankole. The Second Part of the Report of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa. (Westmead: Gregg Press, 1968). Reprint of the first edition of 1923. Cloth, 205pp. Fine.
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ROTBERG, Robert I. Joseph THomson and the Exploration of Africa. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971. First edition. Cloth, 360pp. Fine in a nice d/w.
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SACHS, Bernard. The Road From Sharpeville. London: Dennis Dobson, (1961). First edition. Cloth, 190pp. Fine in d/w. An account of apartheid politics inside and outside of the South African Labour movement.
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SCHOLEFIELD, Alan. The Dark Kingdoms. The Impact of White Civilization on Three Great African Monarchies. London: Heinemann, (1975). First edition. Cloth, 194pp. Fine in d/w. The story of white arrival on three of the most extraordinary and colourful African kingdoms: the Old Kingdom of Congo (now incorporated into northern Angola); Dahomey and Lesotho.
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SEGUIN, L.G. Walks in Algiers and Its Surroundings. London: Chatto & Windus, 1888. New edition. 8vo., orig. red pictorial cloth, xii, 498, 32pp. ads. Bookplate, spine faded, some soiling but certainly a very good copy. An account of the authors extensive wanderings in an about Algiers. She includes information on Algiers as a winter residence; the native inhabitants; christian slavery in Algiers; the French in Algiers; the markets; the Jewish quarter; weddings; with additional information on the surrounding area. An interesting book. Written by Mrs. Lisabeth Gooch Strahan under the name "L.G. Seguin" this work was first published in 1878. She "describes as well and observes as closely as Mrs. Ameila Edwards."
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