Round the black man's garden.
Stock Code 106512
Edinburgh, Blackwood, 1893
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Zelie Colvile travelled to Africa, along with her husband, the author of a standard work on the Sudan Campaign, on the advice of their doctor to winter in warmer climes. Colvile travelled around Africa, the most important section of the book being on Madagascar which was rarely visited at that time. 'Strongly imperialistic, condescending if not contemptuous of Africans' (Theakstone).
First edition; 8vo, xv, 344 pp., 2 folding maps, frontispiece, 31 plates, illustrations in text, original blue cloth gilt, bevelled edges, map pocket with short split, a little foxed, a very good copy.
Robinson p207; Theakstone pp58-59.
First edition; 8vo, xv, 344 pp., 2 folding maps, frontispiece, 31 plates, illustrations in text, original blue cloth gilt, bevelled edges, map pocket with short split, a little foxed, a very good copy.
Robinson p207; Theakstone pp58-59.
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