Coomassie and Magdala: The Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa

1 volume. Second edition 1874.

Some drawings by Melton Prior

(special artist in Ashantee of the Illustrated London News).

Half-leather over brown boards.

Raised bands to spine with gilt title.

Marbled endpapers.

Gilt top page-block.

Ex-libris with some stamps.

xiv, 510 pages.

Full-page plates and in-text illustrations.

2 large fold-out maps.

"Coomassie and Magdala is the story of the great British

Campaigns in East and West Africa. "Commassie was a town

insulated by a deadly swamp. A thick jungle forest - so dense

that the sun seldom pierced he foliage, so sickly that the

strongest fell victims to the malaria it cherished - surrounded

it to a depth of 140 miles seaward, many hundred miles east,

as many more west, and 1000 miles north. Through this forest

and swamp, unrelieved by a single novelty or a single pretty

landscape, the British army had to march; H.M.Stanley [Preface]."

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