The Strong Brown God, the Story of the Niger River
by de Gramont, Sanche
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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DORCHESTER, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hardback. Very Good/Good. Hart Davis, MacGibbon, London, 1975, first edition; large 8vo, pp 350 and with 32pp of plates and seven maps in the text; brown cloth, spine gilt, protected pictorial dust wrapper, end paper maps of Africa, that of the west partly obliterated thanks to the arrogant pasting of a bookplate; very good copy of an interesting work bringing together various writings on the exploration of the Niger from Mungo Park's explorations of 1795 on.
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- Bookseller
- Chesil Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000454
- Title
- The Strong Brown God, the Story of the Niger River
- Author
- de Gramont, Sanche
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1.57 lbs
- Keywords
- exploration; West Africa; Niger; Liberia; Guinea; Mali; Upper Volta; Niger; Dahomey; Nigeria; Mungo Park; Joseph Banks; Frederick Lugard; Sahara; slavery; Timbuctoo; Igbo; Obie; Benin; Port Harcourt West Africa, General
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DORCHESTER, Dorset
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