Search Results: East Africa from Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA

(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." .

(New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1993) 0821219073. 4to; original tan cloth, lettered in black on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper, housed in removable protector; pictorial endpapers; pp. (viii) + 199; profusely illustrated, largely in monochrome, with some full-colour plates. Dustwrapper sunned on spine panel; some fox spots to top edge. Very good condition. "The Adventures and Misadventures of Peter Beard in Africa is part biography, part social history. Beard's dramatic life has been matched lockstep by the dramas that have been transforming East Africa since his arrival. From his front-row seat--Hog Ranch, his 45-acre encampment overlooking the Ngong Hills--he has watched a land of hunters and nomads become an urbanized sprawl, where the annihilation of animal populations has been matched only by the uncontrolled growth of the human population. Beard has been a player in this drama--he has risked beating and imprisonment at the hands of the local government and political… Read 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, Smith, Elder & Co., 1871). Extract from The Cornhill Magazine of June, 1871. 210 x 148; paper wrapper with title label mounted on cover; pp. [726-737]. Very good condition. An encounter with the Arab ruling class of Johanna in the Comores, during which the writer and his companion, Dr David Livingstone, are introduced to the wives of a slaver. There are comments on the treatment of women in Islam and Christendom. .

(Tolworth: Fountain Press, 1988) 0863431852. 4to; original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 111; several illustrations, in colour and monochrome. Dustwrapper a little sunned to spine panel; light bump to top fore-corner of upper board; occasional fox spot. Very good condition. "Ray Nestor travelled to Kenya to work as a surveyor two years before the First World War began. He returned to Kenya after enlisting and being seriously injured in the first Battle of the Somme. Ray Nestor became a farmer, his first love however was sketching and painting the people and landscape of Kenya. He also executed many fine portrait drawings of his friends including Berkeley Cole and Denys Finch-Hatton whose life and love for Karen Blixen inspired the film Out of Africa. An African Sketchbook brings together a selection of superb drawings from his sketchbooks, plus many of his evocative watercolours. The illustrations are complemented by Ray Nestor's memoirs… Read More

(New York, David Mckay Company, 1969). Written and illustrated by James Ralph Johnson. Pictorial dustwrapper, torn, original cloth, pp. 218, line illustrations. Endpapers and edges slightly foxed. 'The Ngorongoro Conservation Area ... is truly an animal paradise, and like no other spot on earth today. It has the largest concentration of big game in Africa, all living natural lives out in the open.' .

(London: Robert Hale, 1938). Medium 8vo; original cerise cloth; tinted top edge; no dustwrapper; pp. 320; plates; two maps. Spine very lightly sunned; boards a little rubbed and stippled. A very clean, bright copy. "The European Powers which have partitioned Africa stand on the same level in my eyes. Abusing their strength and knowledge, they have taken away from the African ... the only homeland he has, and are taking away from him his language, his religion and tradition - his very identity as a lovable and worthy member of the human race. ... Black and Beautiful is an autobiography covering the years 1901-1909, 1917-1920, and 1932-1935 in what is now Tanganyika Territory and was formerly German East Africa. Nothing is set down in it which did not actually happen." .

(Grand Rapids, Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1955). With thirty-four photographs by the author. 8vo; decorative boards a little rubbed and bumped; no dustwrapper; endpaper maps; past owner's name on fly-leaf; pp. 243, incl. glossary; black-and-white photographic plates. Good condition. A factual account of life in Tanganyika Territory, by the author of the Jungle Doctor Series. .

(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.' .

(St Ives, Cambridgeshire: Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson Ltd, 1998) 0852882513. 4to; pictorial boards; pp. viii + 229, incl. index; numerous full-colour maps, photographs, harbour plans, diagrams. Boards very slightly rubbed. Very good condition. "Delwyn McPhun has cruised the coast of East Africa between Kenya and Durban for nearly a decade and has surveyed the area covered by this new pilot book in detail, visiting each port, harbour and anchorage that he describes. As a long-term resident of the East African countries, he has gained an unrivalled working knowledge of their people, customs and the problems that the cruising yachtsman is likely to encounter. His sailing directions and narrative have been produced as a complete handbook for both yachtsmen and diving enthusiasts. East Africa Pilot is produced to the high standard that is associated with Imray cruising guides and will be recognised as the definitive work on the area. Its coverage includes Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Mozambique and… Read More

(London: Heinemann, 1977) 0435945262. 8vo; original red cloth, lettered in silver gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. viii + 215, incl. index; several maps, text figures, tables. Dustwrapper partially sunned; trace of stippling to edges of cloth. Very good condition. "This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of economic history and historiography in East Africa. Indeed it may inaugurate new ways of thinking about economic history because its interdisciplinary approach integrates the findings of historians, political scientists, anthropologists, doctors and veterinary scientists. It is an imaginative, thorough and scholarly re-examination of a range of available historical evidence. Dr. Kjekshus is able to draw on written sources in English, German and Swahili and much of the German material is presented for the first time." .

(London: Herbert Jenkins, 1937). 8vo; original green cloth, blocked in black on spine and upper cover; pp. 316 + adverts; plates. Cloth a little stippled and rubbed; boards slightly bowed; gift inscription to front free endpaper; moderate foxing throughout. Good. A book largely devoted to a tour of Kenya and its lovely estate gardens. "The tenth link in the chain of Marion Cran's garden successes. The author tells again of her garden in Kent, of grief and great loneliness, of returning hope, and of riding the air over Greece, Egypt and Abyssinia to the green highlands of our youngest colony. A book as rich in humour and feeling, and as deeply sensitive, as any that has come from this author's pen." .

(London: Aurum Press, 2013) 9781781310854. 8vo; original crimson boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. xvi + (ii) + 318, incl. index; plates, incl. full-colour; map. Fine condition. "'Happy Valley' came to be a byword for hedonistic excess. The nickname given to the Wanjohi Valley in he Kenya Highlands, it commemorated the small community of affluent white expatriates who settled there between the wars. ... But what is left now? Juliet Barnes, who has lived in Kenya all her life and whose grandparents knew some of the Happy Valley set, decided to find out. So she set off in her battered Land Rover and drove hundreds of miles on bad roads to find the former homes and haunts of this extraordinary and transient group of people. With the help of a remarkable African guide, and the reminiscences of elderly settlers tracked down to nursing homes in Nairobi, she came upon the remains of imposing houses and farms tucked away beneath the… Read More

(Johannesburg: Covos Day, 2001) 1-919-87436-4. 212 x 140 mm; pictorial wrappers; pp. (viii) + xiv + 359; black-and-white photographs; map. Very good condition. .

(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: HarperCollins, 2001). 8vo; original black boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. xv + (i) + 470, incl. index; several maps; monochrome photographic plates. Near fine condition; dustwrapper edges very slightly curled and spine panel a little sunned. "Ewart Grogan, a gentleman adventurer dubbed 'the boldest and baddest of a bold, bad gang' of pioneering settlers in Kenya, was gifted far beyond the ordinary. Possessed of disarmingly good looks, magnetic charm, a formidable intellect and a near boundless ego, he was famed throughout the British Empire as one of the most brilliant - and controversial - figures of African colonial history. ... The dazzling and maverick Grogan was a founding father of colonial Kenya, and one of only a handful of participants in the Scramble for Africa who also witnessed decolonization. Asked in later life to impart the secret of his longevity Grogan mischievously replied: 'to smoke very heavily, drink and eat very little and… Read More

(London: Chatto & Windus, 1960). 8vo; original green cloth; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 288 (including index); plates; maps incl. large folding. Dustwrapper rather edgeworn; light foxing to endpapers, prelims. and fore-edge. Good condition. "Elspeth Huxley follows her Flame Trees of Thika … with an unusual travel book which describes a revolution in the daily lives of Kenya's six million Africans as they forsake their ancient communal traditions for a Western individualism. Her journey took her into the primitive huts of Suk and Tugen tribesmen, among Nandi and Kipsigis herdsmen, to irrigation schemes and settlement experiments and Masai game reserves, among women's progressive clubs and egg circles, to African coffee factories and tea plantations, into tsetse research camps, satellite towns, modern council chambers and housing estates. She tells in full the remarkable story of the transformation of rural Kenya by carving it into tens of thousands of individually-owned… Read More

(London: Harvill, 1990) 0002721732. 212 x 134 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xxv + (i) + 451, incl. index. Foxing to edges, occasional fox spot elsewhere. Very good condition. "George and Joy Adamson, Karen Blixen, Winston Churchill, Cyril Connolly, Ernest Hemingway, Jomo Kenyatta, Richard and Mary Leakey, Beryl Markham, Shiva Naipaul, Laurens van der Post, Evelyn Waugh and Elspeth Huxley herself are just a few of the many writers whose words bring the African experience to life. In this marvellous anthology, Elspeth Huxley, our best and most popular writer on Africa, has drawn on her unparalleled knowledge of Kenya and its literature to present a fully rounded portrait of one of the most fascinating countries in the world." .

(London, Andre Deutsch, 1978). Laminated dustwrapper, pp. 252. Owner's name on the front free endpaper, a little foxing on the edges. .

(London: Museum Press, 1955). 8vo; original black boards, lettered in silver gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; pp. 190; plates. Dustwrapper slightly foxed and edgeworn; pages somewhat foxed. Good. "C. T. Stoneham has drawn upon his vast knowledge and experience of Kenya to present a picture of this troubled country that must impress all those concerned with her future. Out of Barbarism is the result of a long and careful study of the problems confronting this important member of the Commonwealth and there is no doubt that Stoneham writes with the conviction and authority of an expert whose conclusions and suggested remedies are of the greatest interest. Voicing, as he does, the views of the settler whose link with Kenya has extended over more than 30 years, he represents a side of this momentous controversy which cannot be ignored by the student of African affairs." .