Author: Hughes, J.E. (Intro. Major H.C. Maydon).
Title: Eighteen Years on Lake Bangweulu.
Description: The Field. London (1933). Tan cloth boards with gilt and black device to front board. 376pp, illustrated with over 75 plates. Errata slip. 155mm x 195mm x 50mm. 1.7kg. Four square corners, eps spotted, bright boards, spine a little handled, preliminaries spotted, but overall a VG copy. Split rear joint has been professionally repaired. All illustrations present, excellent contents. An attractive, sound, and clean copy. Inscribed "With the Author's Compliments" to half-title page (but not so signed). Formerly a Native Commissioner in North-East Rhodesia the Author made both a land and a boat tour around the lake and gives an account of these travels with his experiences of hunting and native life. A very detailed and informative text of life in the colonial Africa of those days.

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