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Hobley, Kenya - From Chartered Company to Crown Colony, Thirty Years of Explorat

Hobley, C.W.

Kenya – From Chartered Company to Crown Colony, Thirty Years of Exploration and Administration in British East Africa. Illustrated from Photographs. With a Foreword by W.G.A Ormsby Gore M.P (Late Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies).

London, H.F. & G. Witherby, 1929. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece. 256 pages. 19 monochrome images on 10 plates. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine is slightly sunned. Interior very bright and clean with sharp corners. Tissue guard to the frontispiece in near excellent condition.

Includes, for example, the following, chapters: East Africa in the Nineties / Exploration in Taita and Ukamba / The Work of the Chartered Company / The Opening Up of Kavirondo / Life at Mumias – The Sudanese Mutiny / The Pacification of the Nandi / Life in Masailand and Nairobi / The Migrations of Native Races and Their Causes / The African – A Composite Picture / European Colonisation – The Physical Side etc.

Charles William Hobley, CMG (1867-1947) was a pioneering British Colonial administrator in Kenya. He served the Colonial Service in Kenya from 1894 until his retirement in 1921 and published a number of monographs on a variety of subjects. (Wikipedia)

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Hobley, Kenya - From Chartered Company to Crown Colony, Thirty Years of Explorat