O’Shea, T.J. [Compiler & Editor].

Farming and Planting in British East Africa. A Description of the Leading Agricultural Centres and An Account of Agricultural Conditions and Prospects. Compiled and Edited by T.J.O’Shea.

Nairobi, Newland, Tarlton & Co., 1917. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 162 pages. With numerous, fantastic photographic illustrations by W.D.Young throughout the publication, showing a Sisal-Field [Agave sisalana], Power-Station for a group of Sisal Factories at Thika, Highland-Sheep Farm, Sheep Shearing / Photo of a sheep-herd on Lord Delamere’s Elmenteita Farm / Sheep Bred at Naivasha Government Farm / Wheat Growing at Njoro / A Gala Day at Government House etc. etc. With a large Fold-out map at rear showing ‘East-African Protectorate.’ Hardcover [publisher’s original, illustrated red cloth]. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear and scuff marks. Binding still firm and strong. Interior clean and bright. Pastedowns and endpapers carry advertising for Cattle, Building Materials, Agricultural Machinery and other goods for settlers and farmers from Newland Tarlton and Co. of Nairobi and other companies.

Includes, for example, information on the following: Cattle breeding / Coffee / Kapok or Silk Cotton / Planting in Uganda / Sugar Cane / Tea / Tobacco / The Principal Commercial Centres/ Government Stock Farm, Naivasha etc.

Promotional publication for Newland, Tarlton and Co., land and estate agents based in Nairobi advertising the “equable climate, soil of wonderful quality, abundant water, regular rainfall, magnificent scenery” of British East Africa to the “enterprising settler.”
Published in the midst of the Great War, the publication stressed that “although land is cheap to-day, its phenomenal richness, combined with the fact that the country is limited in area, indicate a rapid rise in values immediately after the war.″

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• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120084AB

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