THE MASAI by MERKER An English Translation by Merker, Meritz

N.p.,: no Publisher Book. Very Good. Paperbound. Folio. printed paper covers, cloth spine, 275 pages,typescript copy of translation of original published: Berlin : Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), 1910. the translation from the German was by Frieda Schutze. lower front cover states; "private circulation " Merker, Meritz, 1867-1908. An extensive ethnography of the Maasai people written by a Captain in the German 'Protectorate Troops' a military officer who spent more than 8 years among the Maasai. Part One contains a discussion on the origins of the Maasai and presents Merker's hypothesis that the Maasai are descendants of the nomadic Semites whose ancestral home was on the Arabian peninsula..