Holmes, F. Ratcliffe.
Through Wildest Africa – A Story of Travel.
London, Geoffrey Bles, no year (c.1925). 14.5 cm x 22.2 cm. Frontispiece, 318 pages. 20 photographic illustrations on 11 plates. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Map of the Kenya Colony on front pastedown and endpaper. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very minor foxing to edges. Interior bright and clean and sharped cornered. Preowner’s name on front pastedown.
Narrative account of travels through southern and eastern Africa – particularly around the Kenya Colony. Desciptions of natives, nature and wildlife abound. Book dedicated to “The Officers of the African Colonial Service who Labour at the Outposts of the Empire.″
The photographs show the ice-cap on Kilimandscharo, Wa-Chagga Dancing Girls / Mount Meru / The Longido War Grave etc.
EUR 150,--
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