Search Results: History -- Africa from Syber's Books ABN 40533682787

Sceptre ( Hodder & Stoughton ), London, 1992. reassured. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. It was Stanley's success in the assignment to find Livingstone that 1st won him international acclaim. Subsequently he led to further African expeditions of far greater scope and scientific importance. He completed Livingstone's work by finding the source of the Nile, and he also charted the 2700 mile long Congo River and located the legendary Mountains of the Moon in western Uganda. And, in what was one of the 19th century's greatest acts of geopolitical piracy, he built the roads and established the River Communications that created the so-called Congo Free State for his patron, King Leopold the 2nd of Belgium. Size: Mid Sized Paperback ( 7¾" - 9¾" tall ). [10], 401, [5] pages, including 4 pages of advertisements for other titles, chapter notes, bibliography, and index. Black and white photography throughout the… Read More

Geoffrey Cumberlege/Oxford University Press, Cape Town, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/Poor. Illustrator: Illustrated. 590 g.; XII, 362 pages, list of illustrations, acknowledgements, two appendices and index. Black-and-white Illustrated frontispiece, showing Saul Solomon in his place in the Cape House of Assembly, from a painting by William Howard Schroeder. The text is illustrated with seven black-and-white illustrations throughout the text. Blue coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping and fading to the backstrip edges and bumping and rubbing to the book corners. Browning and marking to the top text block edge and browning to the other text block edges. A few marks to the book panels. Light browning and offset tanning to the endpapers and original bookseller's sticker to the lower right-hand corner of the front paste-down. Age toning to the internal text. Illustrated dustwrapper, being the same illustration as for frontispiece, against a… Read More