Stott, M.D.

The Real Algeria. With 36 Illustrations from Photographs by the Author.

London, Hurst & Blackett, 1914. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece. XVI, 319 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original orange cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edge. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Occasional signs of foxing along edges and on some pages throughout. Interior otherwise bright and unmarked.

Travel-narrative in whcih the author encounters, native Algerians, French colonialists, the famed French Foreign Legion and the ruins of the Roman Empire.

Includes, for example, the following: Old Algiers / Jewish quarter / Kasbah / Sidi Abd er Rahman / On the road to Tizi-Ouzou / The Capture of Fort National / Zouaves / The Heights of the Djurdjura / Eastwards from Bougie / The Zephir and the colonist / Biskra bound / Foreign Legion / Markouna / Vicissitudes of Thamagudi / Trajan and Timgad / Vespasian’s arch / Gorge of El-Kantara / Oued Abdi / Sidi Okba etc.

• Keywords: 19th Century · 19th Century – Rare · 19th Century Literature · Africa – Rare · Africa, North · Africana Collection of Rare Books · Algeria · Ancient · Ancient History · Ancient Rome · Colonialism · Desert · French Foreign Legion · French Imperialism · Imperialism · Imperialism in literature · Maghreb · Native, Rituals and Customs · Natives · North Africa · Sahara · Travel · Travel Africa – Rare · Travel Writing · Travellers · Travelling Authors
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120028AB

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