Search Results: East Africa

Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Garden City, NY Doubleday: Anchor , 1969. Paperback First Edition Thus, so stated. Twenty-five pages show MARKINGS IN THE TEXT. Else, Good in Wraps: shows indications of considerable use: moderate wear to the extremities; significant rubbing, creasing and soiling; moderate spine lean; the backstrip shows several creases. Despite noted flaws remains a sturdy, functional reading copy. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 338pp. First Edition Thus, so stated. Mass Market Paperback. Basil Risbridger Davidson MC (1914 – 2010) was a British historian, writer and Africanist, particularly knowledgeable on the subject of Portuguese Africa prior to the 1974 Carnation Revolution. From 1951, he became a well-known authority on African history, an unfashionable subject in the 1950s. His writings emphasised the pre-colonial achievements of Africans, the disastrous effects of the Atlantic slave trade, the further damage inflicted on Africa by European colonialism and the baleful effects of… Read More

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Pub., 1962. (1962), 456pp, illus., maps, usual lib. markings, dj flaps trimmed, pocket in rear em has been removed, front inner hinge starting, contents clean.. Cloth. Good/Very Good -. Ex-Library.

Boston University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1963. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 93 pages; End-paper maps .

New York & Washington: Frederick A. Praeger. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1967. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Bookplate on front endpaper. Pages have some browning. .

Nairobi: Published for the Historical Association of Tanzania by the East African Publishing House, 1973. 42p., line map, staplebound 5.5x8.5 inch wraps, a very good copy. Historical Association of Tanzania Paper No. 11.

London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1963. Solid copy. Tight and square. Neat signature at bottom edge of front end-paper. No other markings. Price intact jacket is protected in mylar. 458 pages with index. . Second Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Dar Es Salaam: Tanzania Publishing House, 1977. Paperback. 177p., very good first edition small trade paperback in printed wraps. Parallel stories of two Bulembe families coming to terms with Independence.

Longmans. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover.

(London, Williams & Norgate, 1930). Original wraps, soiled, some fraying at extremities of the spine, owner's inscription on the upper wrap, price-clipped on upper flap, pp. 96. Some foxing and pencilling in the margins. Bookseller's address label tipped to contents page. Fair condition. 'Well qualified by many years' experience in British tropical Africa, both as a Government official and as a trained ethnologist, Mr. Driberg criticises the present system of Imperial colonisation and advances some revolutionary and constructive proposals for the better government of Africa in general and East Africa in particular.' .

(London, Longmans, 1964). Laminated pictorial dustwrapper, little rubbed and slightly marked, pp. xiii + 210, black-and-white photographic plates. Endpapers and edges foxed. .

(Hawthorn, Lonely Planet Publications, 1991). 180 x 130 mm; laminated pictorial wraps; pp. 294 + 32 page colour safari guide, illustrated with 50 detailed maps and colour photographs. Very good condition. "With its balmy white-sand beaches, snow-capped mountains and wild scrub deserts, Kenya is a land of spectacular contrasts. It is also home to some of the most exotic wildlife in the world - lions, elephants, leopards, rhinoceroses, baboons, zebras, impala, flamingos - and fascinating tribal people, such as the Maasai and the Kikuyu. This comprehensive guide has all the facts on how to get there, what to see, and the best places to eat and stay ... no matter what your budget." .

(London, Collins, 1968). With drawings by Victor Ambrus. Pictorial dustwrapper, soiled, pp. 224, line illustrations. Inscription on the front free endpaper, edges lightly foxed. 'The impact that this East African safari had on Evelyn Ames, her husband, an architect friend and his wife, was quite unforeseen. 'Nothing, really, prepares you for life on the East African Highlands,' she writes.' .

Longman's, 1965. hardcover in very good condition with very good dust jacket. 3rd edition. a little foxing on top edge of pages. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

East African Publishing House. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1965(68). First Paperback Edition; Second Printing. Softcover. Some light cover wear. .

London: International African Institute. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1953. Softcover. Minor cover wear, 1/2 tear at spine top. Interior clean. ; Ethnography Survey of Africa; 152 pages .

(London, Dennis Dobson Limited, 1953). 8vo; original blue cloth a little worn; boards very slightly bowed; no dustwrapper; past owner's name on front free endpaper; pp. 111; black-and-white photographic plates. Good condition. "In forest clearings, valleys, savannahs and uplands from the slopes of Kilimanjaro to the shores of Lake Victoria, African farmers tend their fields in peace - a peace they have only known in the few decades since the white man came. And the white man himself, the settler, cultivates on the highlands the small part of this enormous land which, in good faith, he took and made his home. But for him there is no more peace. For Kenya as we loved it, both dwellers there and travellers, is no more." .

(London: Harvill Press, 1972). 8vo; original tan cloth; price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 191; black-and-white plates. Dustwrapper a little edgeworn; some dampstaining to rear endpaper; a little spotting. Good condition. "The author here tells the story of her personal discovery of the land of Kenya and its people. She arrived, shortly after her marriage to Monty Ruben, a Nairobi businessman with a University degree in Zoology, at a politically unpropitious moment: the State of Emergency was declared the week she came to her new home. … Adjustment to her new surroundings only began when she discarded the gun she was at first obliged to carry, and when she could speak Swahili fluently. It gathered momentum when she started to go on safari in the bush and there came in contact with the real Africa: its beauty, its stillness and its activity." .

(London, Cassell, 1955). 8vo; green boards; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 249 including index; black-and-white plates; name of previous owner on front free endpaper; scattered foxing. Good condition. "Alastair Scobie spends his time in the wilder parts of East Africa looking for trouble - principally wild-animal trouble. With a film camera and a gun he wanders over the long plains and steep passes of Northern Kenya, ankle deep in volcanic dust, or through gorilla and rhino tunnels, forced passages in the massed bamboo forests of the 'Mountains of the Moon' on the edge of the Congo. Wherever he goes he seeks sensation for entertainment of the millions who take their thrills vicariously through the medium of cinema or television." .