Author: Oswald, Felix
Title: Alone in the Sleeping-Sickness Country
Description: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd. 1915 xii, 219, [1], frontis + 39 plates of b/w photos, folding map. . HB. 8vo, orig. maroon cloth. Some foxing to prelims and occasionally elswhere. Signed inscription from the author. Bookplate of Frank Merry Stenton and Doris Mary Stenton, Whitley Park Farm, Reading. Frank Stenton (1880-1967) was an English historian of Anglo-Saxon period, Professor of history (1926-1946) and vice-chancellor (1946-1950) of the University of Reading, and president of the Royal Historical Society (1937-1945). His wife, Doris Mary Stenton (1894-1971) was also a historian of the Middle Ages.. First edition. An account of the author's travels in East Africa among the native Kavirondo, while carrying out a geological investigation on behalf of the British Museum, of some Miocene deposits near Karungu, on the east coast of Victoria Nyanza..

Keywords: East Africa; Lake Victoria; Travel Narrative; Victoria Nyanza


See more books from our catalog: Travel & Exploration,Travel