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Decle, Lionel : Three Years in Savage Africa

Books of Rhodesia, 1974

the boards are edge worn and shelf rubbed. spine sunned. slight creasing. some foxing. internally clean and tightly bound. Reprint. [P.K.]. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: No Jacket

Decle, Lionel : Three Years in Savage Africa

Books of Rhodesia, 1974

ISBN 0869201107

The leather bound de luxe edition; no. 42 of 150 copies. From the historic Queen Victoria Memorial Reference Library. Several library markings both internally and externally.The spine is sunned. The boards are a bit rubbed and marked. Tightly bound.. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: No Jacket

Decle, Lionel : Three Years in Savage Africa

Books of Rhodesia, 1974

jacket is worn and chipped. boards are edge worn, knocked and a bit insect damaged. ownership inscription. thorough foxing and marks. small map included. a slightly heavy copy. sound binding. fairly good copy.[S.K]. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Fair

Decle, Lionel : Three Years in Savage Africa

Books of Rhodesia 1974, 1974

ISBN 0869201093

Vol. 35 of the Rhodesiana Reprint Library gold series. both book and jacket are very good++. jacket has a few very small closed tears, and the slightest fraying, but no paper loss. book has no inscriptions.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good

Decle, Lionel : Three Years in Savage Africa

(Bulawayo: Books of Rhodesia, 1974) 0869201093

ISBN 0869201093

Volume 35 of the Rhodesiana Reprint Library Gold Series. Text facsmile of the Methuen edition of 1900, with a new publishers' introduction and foreword. 8vo; original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover; no dustwrapper; pp. (xvi) + xxxi + (i) + 592, incl. index; plates and illustrations in text; maps, incl. folding. Boards a little rubbed; some spotting to edges and endpapers, occasionally elsewhere. Very good, though lacking dustwrapper. "Lionel Decle's entertaining Three Years in Savage Africa - part travelogue, part adventure story and part scientific exercise - has been chosen ... in the current Rhodesiana Reprint Series for two principal reasons. Firstly, the author was commissioned by the French Government to study and report on the life-styles, customs and character of the indigenous peoples of southern, central and east Africa. This he did after an exhaustive 7000-mile odyssey and, although his observations tend to be somewhat superficial, even inaccurate in places, they are both interesting and generally valid. ... Moreover this is, in a sense, an important work, for the Africa which Decle knew in the early 1890s was at an historical watershed. When the author began his journey, says Henry Morton Stanley in his Introduction, 'the Great South African trunk railway had only reached Vryburg, the Chartered Company was but just then in possession of Mashonaland; Lobengula was still in his kraal in Bulawayo; Mr Rhodes was heavily subdidizing British Central Africa; the Germans had not yet advanced to Tanganyika; and Uganda was being nursed by Sir W. Mackinnon: consequently all the regions he visited were still somewhat benighted, though the dawn was breaking and the sounds foretelling the changes so soon to come were in the air.' Great changes indeed. Decle is writing about countries which had only recently been explored and were about to be colonised, exploited, and exposed to a mere half-century of civilising influence before being launched on the lonely and often hazardous path of independence. 'A last look around', Stanley goes on, 'cannot fail to be interesting.'"

DECLE, Lionel : Three Years in Savage Africa

Books of Rhodesia, Bulawayo, 1974

A fine copy in a fine d.w. Rhodesiana Gold Series #35. Facsimile reprint of the rare original edition, with a new introductin.

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