Storia regionale e locale

Chronicle of an African Trip.

EASTMAN, GEORGE. · 1927 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

Privately printed for the Author, 1927. 1st edition. Record and photographs of a big-game hunting trip to Africa. "The following letters chronicle the adventures of a party - consisting of Daniel E. Pomeroy, of New York, Dr Audley D. Stewart, of Rochester, and the writer [Geor...

Red Carpet to China.

CROFT, MICHAEL. · 1958 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1958. 1st edition. "Invited 'out of the blue' to join an international youth delegation to China, Michael Croft - founder of the National Youth Theatre and author of that remarkable first novel 'Spare the Rod' - set out on the strange journey, v...

The History of a Slave.

JOHNSTON, H.H. · 1889 · Chilton Books

£100.00 (€119.88 | $132.14 | ¥21,103)

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co, 1889. 1st edition. "The 'History of a Slave' is an attempt to give a realstic sketch of life in the Western Sudan. It is the outcome of some considerable experience of the Dark Continent, but is especially based on what I have seen and heard w...

The Masai Story.

KOENIG, OSKAR. · 1956 · Chilton Books

£9.50 (€11.39 | $12.55 | ¥2,005)

London: Michael Joseph, 1956. 2nd impression. "It is over twenty years since I first made friends with the Masai, that famous warrior tribe, and since then I have probed deeper and deeper into their fascinating, ancient and almost uncharted country - perhaps some two thousand ...

Angola in Perspective. Endeavour and Achievement in Portuguese West Africa.

EGERTON, F. CLEMENT C. · 1957 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1957. 1st edition. "The author begins his account with its discovery in 1482, when Diego Cao sailed up the river Congo and laid foundations on which the Portuguese hoped, for a time, to aid the native ruler to establish a negro monarchy on the l...

The Soul of an African Padre.

CALLAWAY, REV. GODFREY. · 1932 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Cape Town: English Church Book Room, 1932. 1st edition. "In these letters of an imaginary native priest, the Author speaks with the knowledge of forty years as a teacher, pastor, and friend of the Kafir people. On the burning question of the White Man's treatment of the Native...

"It's Like Holding the Key to Your Own Jail": Women in Namibia.

ALLISON, CAROLINE. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1986. 2825408417. 1st edition. "Attempts to provide a view of war and political repression experienced, endured and struggled against by women in Namibia." Pp.x/71, owner's name to half-title page. Paperback. VG.

The Story of an African Farm. A Novel.

IRON, RALPH. [PSEUD. OLIVE SCHREINER]. · 1892 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: Chapman and Hall, 1892. New Edition. Pp.296/8(ads for other publications), small bookseller's label(Widdison, Sheffield) to inside rear cover, owner's name to front free endpaper. Dark green cloth, gilt title to front and spine, slightly rubbed. G+.** "Olive Schreiner ...

Mungo Park in Africa 1795-7.

URLING-SMITH, F.M. AND FAUCETT, L.W. · 1960 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

London: Oxford University Press, 1960. The Oxford Story Readers for Africa series. A re-telling of the explorer Mungo Park's first journey through Africa for children. Pp.90, small line-drawing illustrations occasionally throughout. Paperback, slightly rubbed. VG.

The Constitution of the Church of Nigeria with The Basis of Union and Inauguration and Interim Arrangements.

NIGERIA CHURCH UNION COMMITTEE. · 1965 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Ibadan: The Nigeria Church Union Committee, 1965. 0. "The Nigeria Church Union Committee, made up of representatives of seven Anglican Dioceses within Nigeria, of the Methodist Church, Nigeria, and of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria, in March 1963 remitted the Scheme of Uni...

The Making of Northern Nigeria. (with maps).

ORR, CAPTAIN C.W.J. · 1987 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London: Darf Publishers Ltd, 1987. 1850771383. "First published in 1911, and here reproduced in facsimile, the work is now of particular importance for the information it contains on the history of the region, its study of contemporary life, and as an account of how European d...

The Ghanaian Revolution.

AMAMOO, JOSEPH G. · 1988 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Jafint Co, 1988. 1854210165. 1st ed. "When in March 1957 Ghana became the first African country in colonial Africa to achieve Independence, the event was enthusiastically welcomed by millions of Africans and liberal non-Africans. Many people looked up to Ghana with hop...

Christians and China.

HAYWARD, V. · 1974 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Belfast: Christian Journals Limited,1974. 1st ed. "This is a book of greater importance than its size might indicate..First, against a well-sketched historical background, it brings us up to date(1974) with the present position of affairs in China. Secondly, while fully apprec...

The Cambridge History of Africa. Volume 6. c.1870-c.1905.

OLIVER, ROLAND AND SANDERSON, G.N. (EDITORS). · 1985 · Chilton Books

£100.00 (€119.88 | $132.14 | ¥21,103)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. 0521228034. 1st edition. "..covers the period 1870-1905, when the European powers (Britain, France, Germany, Portugal and Italy) divided the continent into colonial territories and vied with each other for control over vast tracts o...

Power and the Praise Poem: Southern African Voices in History.

VAIL, LEROY AND WHITE, LANDEG. · 1991 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.57 | $37.00 | ¥5,909)

Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991. 1st ed. Chapters include: 1. The Invention of 'Oral Man' - Anthropology, Literary Theory, and a Western Intellectual Tradition; 2. 'Maps of Experience' - Songs and Poetry in Southern Africa; 3. The Development of Forms - Nde...

Africa: A Continent Self-Destructs.

SCHWAB, PETER. · 2001 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

New York: Palgrave, 2001. 031224018X. 1st ed. "Many of the nations of sub-Saharan Africa have all but ceased to exist as organized states: tyranny, diseases such as AIDS, civil war and ethnic conflict, and cross-border invasions threaten the complete disintegration of a region...

Fontana Dictionary of Africa Since 1960.

GRACE, JOHN AND LAFFIN, JOHN. · 1991 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: Fontana Press, 1991. 0006862144. "..the most comprehensive guide to African political culture in the modern, post-colonial era yet to be published..There is a full chronological breakdown of evnets on the African continent year-by-year since 1960, and also a supplement...

Aspects of Central African History.

RANGER, T.O. (EDITOR.). · 1968 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London: Heinemann, 1968. 1st ed. "This book adds a new dimension to the history of the area. It focusses attention on the period before European control and on the later resistance and reactions to colonial rule." Pp.15/291, owner's name to half-title page. Paperback. G+.

Smoke of the Savannah. From Dakar to Abidjan: Across West Africa to see Sculpture.

PENNIE, MICHAEL. · 1989 · Chilton Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,643)

Bath: Artworth, 1989. 1st ed. Trekking across West Africa. 17.5cms. x 20.5cms. Pp. 5/89, occasional line drawings + 1 map, signed by author to title page. P/b. VG.

Second-Class Taxi.

STEIN, SYLVESTER. · 1983 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Cape Town: Africasouth Paperbacks, 1983. Rep. "This is the story of Staffnurse Phofolo, a 'Non-European from Non-Europe'. In this novel of the 1950's, young Staffnurse is an 'illegal' black man. He inhabits a concrete drainpipe (a quite illicit dwelling), he frequents shebeens...