Item #146233 Coillard of the Zambesi. The Lives of François and Christina Coillard, of the Paris Missionary Society, in South and Central Africa (1858-1904). François COILLARD, Catherine Winkworth MACKINTOSH.
Coillard of the Zambesi. The Lives of François and Christina Coillard, of the Paris Missionary Society, in South and Central Africa (1858-1904)
Coillard of the Zambesi. The Lives of François and Christina Coillard, of the Paris Missionary Society, in South and Central Africa (1858-1904)

Coillard of the Zambesi. The Lives of François and Christina Coillard, of the Paris Missionary Society, in South and Central Africa (1858-1904)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1907.

Octavo, xx, 484 pages plus 78 plates and a large folding colour map.

Gilt-pictorial cloth a little flecked, marked and sunned; top edge gilt; scattered foxing; church stamp on the front free endpaper; mild signs of age and use; overall, a very good copy.

The Coillards were missionaries with the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society who established several mission stations in Barotseland, or the Lozi Kingdom (now part of Zambia), at the height of the Scramble for Africa. The author was their niece.

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