ELIOT, Charles. The East Africa Protectorate. London, Edward Arnold, 1905.
8vo. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt; pp. xii, with sepia photographic frontispiece, 30 black and white photographic plates on 16 leaves, and 2 folding maps; front cover with one central dent, otherwise a very good and claen copy, ownership inscription to front fly-leaf.
Second impression of a fascinating work on a region of Africa in transition. This is a labour of love by the former Commissioner for the East Africa Protectorate, a man who descibes his time there as "the happiest and most interesting years of my life", but who departed under a cloud, owing to a financial scandal that he touches upon here.
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