Lionel Portman — Station Studies

1902, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1902. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this account of a British Colonialist administrator's time in Uganda at the start of the twentieth century. The first edition of this work, part biography, part travelogue and cultural study. The author, Lionel Portman, was an official in the Ugandan administration between 1900 and 1901. This work details Portman's time on a British district government office in the East African region. Termed a 'boma', a popular myth told to tourists in the African Great Lakes states that BOMA stood for 'British Overseas Management Administration' or 'British Officers Mess Area' during the colonial era in Africa.The work begins with a lengthy account of Portman's typical days work at the station, followed by seven further chapters detailing specific memorable encounters.With an extensive forty page Longmans' publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Discolouration to spine, with bumping to spine head and tail. Front hinge starting, but holding firm. Internally, generally firmly bound though strained in places. The odd patch of heavier spotting throughout. Tears to several pages of publisher's catalogue, with majority of final leaf absent. Good . Ill.: None. Good .