IMPERIAL AFRICA - THE RISE, PROGRESS AND FUTURE OF THE BRITISH POSSESSIONS IN AFRICA - VOL I, BRITISH WEST AFRICA
Author:
MOCKLER-FERRYMAN, MAJOR A.F.
Year:
1898
Edition:
1st
Publisher:
The Imperial Press Ltd
Summary:
xvi ? 512 pp +xvi pp adverts Folding coloured frontis ap and 8 other maps some folding full page illustration from photographs and text illustration. Publishers' pictorial blue cloth with gilt title to upper cover and a Hausa warrior in brown spine with gilt title and native vignette, publishers cypher to the rea cover. Bruise mark to centre and upper edge of the front cover possibly from string. A very good copy. A geographical survey of West Africa, written at the height of European imperial expansion. It examines the growth of British influence and colonial possessions, early exploration, the people, folklore, trade, slavery and the slave trade etc.
Ref:
24501
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