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Oxford University Press, 1972. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Near fine book and jacket. .

New York:: Oxford University Press,, 1972.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket. Uncommon and especially so in this condition. . First printing. The first full-length biography of one of outstanding Africans of the nineteenth century - a medical doctor and officer in the British Army, geologist, botanist, and a pioneer thinker on race and development as well as a prolific author (notably "West African Countries and Peoples" written in 1868.) His life is portrayed against the political and economic background of West Africa in the period before "the fog of the colonial era" descended over black ambitions and achievements. Frontispiece portrait,map, footnotes, selected bibliography, index. xi, 169 pp.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.