THE TREE WHERE MAN WAS BORN / THE AFRICAN EXPERIENCE
First edition of this collaborative record of the authors' travels in East Africa from Sudan to the Kenyan Rift Valley, with text by Matthiessen and striking color photographs by Porter.
First edition of this collaborative record of the authors' travels in East Africa from Sudan to the Kenyan Rift Valley, with text by Matthiessen and striking color photographs by Porter.
First edition of this history of Arab and European invasions and occupations of the African continent, with great attention to the eventual British opposition to the slave trade.
First edition of this account of the Anglo-French cartographer's explorations in Jubaland, now a member state of Somalia, illustrated with the author's own photographs and maps.
First edition of this hunting and wildlife manual published by the government of what was formerly Italian Somaliland, illustrated with the faces, figures, and footprints of the Bat-Eared Fox, Common Genet, assorted antelopes and others, many of which are protected.
First edition, second issue (as common) of Burton's classic account of his travels in Somalia and Ethiopia, with appendices including the diary and observations of John Speke and an early effort at a grammar of the Harari language.
First edition of this anthology of African, Arab, European, and Asian historical sources, from Pharaonic inscriptions to twentieth-century accounts.
First paperback printing of this 1958 account of capturing and handing over for execution the leader of the Mau Mau uprising by proud British imperialist and 'Butcher of Bahrain' Ian Henderson, assisted by Conservative MP Goodhart.
First printing of this history of various artforms in Nigeria, including beadwork, brass work, carving, pottery, and weaving – illustrated with photographs of objects and diagrams by Michael Foreman.
First edition of this first-hand account of Henry M. Stanley's years traveling the Congo in the service of the colonial aspirations of Belgium.
Later edition of this description of the disastrous Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, as told by its leader Henry M. Stanley.
Uncommon account of the life of a South African ostrich farmer near the turn of the twentieth century.
First edition of the final African journals of Scottish missionary, abolitionist, and explorer David Livingstone, including his own account of the famous meeting with Stanley.