Author: BROWN William Harvey
Title: On the South African Frontier. The Adventures and Observations of an American in Mashonaland and Matabeleland. BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Description: Sampson Low Marston & Co.,, 1899. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 31 plates and 2 large coloured folding maps at rear, free endpapers browned, neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original red cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, crisp copy. Brown served as naturalist on an expedition sent by the US Government to the west coast of Africa in 1889, but remained as collector, big-game hunter, gold seeker, landowner, citizen and solder during seven years' participation in the early development of Rhodesia. A classic of pioneer life in the formative period of colonial southern Africa. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Mendelssohn I/308; Czech p. 24. Hosken p. 28.

Keywords: travel, africa, south africa, mashonaland, matabeleland, rhodesia, zimbabwe, william harvey brown


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