First Edition. xvi + 111pp, Frontispiece + Map of East Africa + 15 illustrations. Original pictorial cloth, a bright copy, clean boards, slight toning of endpapers, old dealer price (£250) and stock code in pencil otherwise internally clean, VG+ or better. A superior copy.
The 1917 memoir by the Reverend Ernest Frederick Spanton. As an Anglican missionary and principal of St. Andrew’s College on Zanzibar, Spanton details his two-year imprisonment by German forces during World War I after being caught in German East Africa (modern-day Tanzania). Includes a prefatory note by Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston. Laid in is an old dealer description
- Binding Condition: Very Good
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: 19cm x 13cm
