Travels and Adventure in Eastern Africa.(De Luxe Edition 22/100)

Nathaniel Isaac's account of Natal and Zululand is unique and, as the historian Theal remarks, " a very interesting book, indispensable to a student of early events in Natal". For it is to Isaacs that we owe, not only an observant eye-witness's accurate description of the Zulu people before they came under European influence, but the only comprehensive account written at first hand, from day to day, of the history of the savage king, Chaka.

Travels and Adventures in Eastern Africa, Descriptive of the Zoolus, Their manners, customs with A Sketch of Natal. Newly revised and edited, in one volume, with a biography of the Author, Notes and Appendices, by Louis Herman and Percival R.Kirby.

"It is a vivid, detailed and accurate record of the birth of a great settlement, and he (Isaacs)deserves the acclamation of every interested historian." says Graham MacKeurtan in his Cradle of Days of Natal, and according to A.T.Bryant in his Olden Times in Zululand and Natal, " Isaacs's forsight and diligence in having kept a diary throughout his sojourn in Natal, we are indebted for the only consecutive narrative ever penned by an actual eye-witness- apart from some odd papers left us by Fynn- describing Shaka and his people.

De-Luxe edition, this being 22 of 100 copies in this binding., with matching marbled endpapers. Colour Frontispiece, xxxi plus 349 pages text, and suppoting data. With further illustrations. Very clean copy.