London, Oliver & Boyd, 1957 1st Ed., viii+347pp., num. plates, several sketch maps. A very good clean copy, in brown cloth with gilt title to spine. Internally clean, bright and sound with numerous b/w plates. Top edge colour stained. In unclipped d/w that has chips to top and bottom of spine and signs of shelf wear to edges. Colours still bright and clear and overall it is rather an attractive copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
The author Joined the Royal Fusiliers 1899 & was to the attached to 3rd Bn. King's African Rifles in East Africa 1902-06, particularly in the Nandi country which he observed & recorded in detail, from ethnography & geography to military arrangements & colonial expansion at a critical stage. The first (& scarcest) of Meinertzhagen's remarkable trilogy of memoirs.
Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, CBE, DSO (3 March 1878 – 17 June 1967) was a British soldier, intelligence officer, and ornithologist. He had a decorated military career spanning Africa and the Middle East. He was credited with creating and executing the Haversack Ruse in October 1917, during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the First World War, but his participation in this matter has since been thoroughly refuted.
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