Author: Kirkland, Caroline.
Title: Some African Highways. A Journey of Two American Women to Uganda and the Transvaal.
Description: Duckworth. London 1908. Original green cloth boards. 345pp illustrated map and plates. 8vo. 0.7kg. No inscriptions. A G++ sound and clean copy. folding map excellent. nice clean copy. Much of the material presented originally appeared in the Chicago Tribune in 1906. Simply the record of two intrepid women to the 'dark continent', principally Uganda and the Transvaal. Includes map of the Mombasa-Victoria (Uganda) Railway, and deals with the prevalence of 'sleeping sickness in tropical Africa. Over 45 illustrations.

Keywords: travel africa african sleeping sickness tsetse fly uganda mombasa baganda dar es salaam entebbe mozambique zanzibar bu bu bu


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