Author: Isaacs, Nathaniel.
Title: Travels and Adventure in Eastern Africa. Descriptive of the Zoolus, Their Manners, Customs, with a Sketch of Natal . . .
Description: Struik. Cape Town 1970 1st edition thus. Green cloth boards, 349pp illustrated 4to. 1.7kg. Bookplate to front pastedown. No inscriptions, 4 square corners, a very clean unmarked VG copy in G+ dustwrapper (rubbed and worn but no major tears, or loss). Copy No. 376 of 1500. " ... Newly Revised And Edited, In One Volume, With A Biography Of The Author, Notes And Appendices". One of the earliest 19thC European accounts of Natal and the Zulu kingdom with an account of the early white settlement there. Regarded as an accurate and observant eye-witness description of the Zulu people before they came under the sway of European influence. A comprehensive day-to-day and first-hand account of the history of the king Chaka. The biography of Isaacs covers his departure from Natal in 1832 and his death in England nearly forty years later. The best of available reprints of this elusive title.

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