Russell, Lilian.[Mrs.Charles E.B.]

General Rigby, Zanzibar and the Slave Trade – With Journals, Dispatches, Etc. Edited by his daughter, Mrs. Charles E.B. Russell.

London, George Allen & Unwin, 1935. 14 cm x 22 cm. 404 pages including a thorough Index. Fold-out map at rear showing “General Rigby’s Career in H.M Service”. With a specimen of Rigby’s Arabic Writings. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth without the dustjacket] with gilt lettering on spine. Blind embossment to front board. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Old price and former owner’s name on endpaper. Besides this an extremely firm and tight copy and the Interior very bright and clean.

Includes, for example, the following: Early Life in the Service, India, Aden, Leave in Europe, 1836-1853 / Persia, 1854-1858 / Zanzibar, Diary and Personal Letters (1858-1861) / Zanzibar and the Slave Trade [with] The United States, Portugal, France, Persia and Arabia / The East Coast Slave Trade After 1861 / Explorers / etc.

A biography of the life and times of a Major-General Christopher Palmer Rigby (1820-1885) who served in various positions across the far-flung British Empire, most notably as Consul in Zanzibar and Muscat. At Zanzibar he sought to stamp out the slave trade and took an active role in assisting British geographic explorers such as Captains Burton and Speke who journeyed to Lake Tangangyika and Victoria Nyanza. He was a noted linguist and an early member of the Royal Geographic Society (Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, Vol.7, No. 6).

• Keywords: Africa · Africa – Rare · Africa, British East · Africa, Eastern · Africana Collection of Rare Books · Army · biographical · Biography · biography, individual · British · British Colonial Administration · British Colonial History · British Dominions · British East Africa · Colonial History – Rare · East Africa · East India Company · Empire · India · Slave trade · Slavery · Travel Africa – Rare · Victorian Era · Zanzibar
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120150AB

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