Morrison, G.R.

Mixed Farming in East Africa. With a foreword by Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Francis Scott.

London, East Africa, 1935. 15 cm x 22 cm. 159 pages, X pages of colonial advertising / ads at rear (Kenya Coffee, Advertisement targeting Farmers and Settlers in East Africa etc.). Hardcover [publisher’s original brown cloth] with lettering on spine. With the very rare, original dust-jacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very occasional foxing. Interior bright and clean. Binding firm and strong and square. The jacket in excellent condition !

Includes, for example, the following: Life on an East African Farm / The Lessons of the Past / The Principles of Mixed Farming etc.
Volume published by “East Africa,” a London-based newspaper that focused on the East and Central Africa.
In the foreword Scott asserts that Kenya is “crying out for new settlers to help in her development, and to bring reinforcements to strengthen the present situation”. The book is aimed at attracting the would-be settler, filled “with the adventurous spirit of the British spirit,” to the colony where economic opportunity and “freedom” – a “free hand to carry out one’s own ideas in one’s own country” -awaits.

• Keywords: Africa · Africa – Rare · Africa, British East · Africa, East · Africana Collection of Rare Books · Agricultural land · Agriculture · Botany – Rare · British · British Colonial History · British Dominions · British East Africa · British Empire · British History · colonial · Colonial History – Rare · Colonialism · Farming · Farming – Rare · Kenya · Kenya Colony and Protectorate · Settler · Settler life · Travel Africa – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120187AB

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