East Africa and its Invaders from the Earliest Times to the Death of Seyyid Said in 1856
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965/ 1938.
Octavo, viii, 584 pages plus a folding map.
Cloth; one corner very slightly bumped; bookplate; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper slightly creased and sunned on the spine, with a few tiny closed tears.
With the ownership signature of Sir Walter Crocker (Colonial Administration Service in Nigeria 1930-34, and Australian Ambassador to Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya 1965-67). A related review cutting is tipped-in on the rear flyleaf. 'Sir Reginald Coupland was widely regarded as an authority on David Livingstone, a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary and an explorer in Africa, who was one of the most popular national heroes of late-19th-century in Victorian Britain. Coupland's previous works on African history include 'Kirk on the Zambesi' (1928) and 'The Exploitation of East Africa, 1856-1890' (1939).' (World Cat website) 'Describes in detail, and mainly from hitherto unpublished sources, the character of Arab rule in East Africa and the impact on its people of European and American 'invaders' - merchants, missionaries, explorers and political agents.'.
Item #118110
Price (AUD):
$150.00