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ON TREK IN KORDOFAN : the diaries of a British district officer in the Sudan, 1931-1933

By: C A E Lea; M W Daly; British Academy.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford; Published for the British Academy: 1994

Seller ID: 1125248

ISBN: 0197261280

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

pict cloth, pp., ix, 304 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations, maps,, signature crossed out on front free endpaper, else a clean, bright copy,The life of the colonial district officer on trek has seldom been revealed in more detail than in Lea's journals from Kordofan, in the Western Sudan. Never intended for publication, these trek notes contain rare candor and informality, and give an unvarnished view of the land and people during a period of rapid social change. Northern Kordofan, especially Dar al-Kababish, was then little known to the outside world, and these notes therefore form a...
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THE MONUMENTS OF EGYPT : the Napoleonic edition : the complete archaeological plates from la Description de l'Egypte

By: Coulston,Charles, Gillispie; Michel Dewachter

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Old Saybrook, CT, Konecky and Konecky: 1987

Seller ID: 11257049

ISBN: 1568522657

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

gren cloth, gilt spine, pp.,45, [525] pages of plates (28 in full color) : illustrations (some color), 1 map, edited with introduction and notes by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Michel Dewachter., Published in association with the Architectural League of New York and the J. Paul Getty Trust. Folded map inserted.arguably the most valuable representation of Egyptian hieroglyphs in book form, extra post may be required.
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THE AFRICAN WANDERERS; Or, The Adventures of Carlos and Antonio, Embracing Interesting Descriptions of the Manners and Customs of the Tribes, and the Natural Productions of the Country.

By: Lee, Mrs. R.; formerly Mrs. T. Edward Bowdich) Henry Fley; Samuel Bentley

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London,, Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh...:

Seller ID: LT 2349

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

n.d. (Circa 1892) pp., x, 358, (16) pp. pub's catalogue, a.e.g., beveled boards, illustrated, frontis.,8 full page plates, patterned endpapers, edges bumped, worn, spine end worn, wear along spine, moisture stain across top of rear end paper and top of inside rear cover, covers show some marks and scuffs "Most of the circumstances are drawn from the personal experience of the Author or her friends"
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THE MASAI by MERKER An English Translation

By: Merker, Meritz

Price: $100.00

Publisher: N.p.,, no Publisher:

Seller ID: 11257006

Binding: Paperbound

Condition: Very Good

printed paper covers, cloth spine, 275 pages,typescript copy of translation of original published: Berlin : Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), 1910. the translation from the German was by Frieda Schutze. lower front cover states; "private circulation " Merker, Meritz, 1867-1908. An extensive ethnography of the Maasai people written by a Captain in the German 'Protectorate Troops' a military officer who spent more than 8 years among the Maasai. Part One contains a discussion on the origins of the Maasai and presents Merker's hypothesis that the Maasai are descendants of the nomadic Semites who...
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A dictionnary of the Maasai language and folklore English-Maasai , Signed Copy

By: Mol Frans

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Nairobi, Marketing and Publishing: 1978

Seller ID: 11257002

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

black cloth, gilt cover and spine, 190 pages, signed in ink on front endpaper with 4 line inscription to former owners, The work of the foremost linquistic scholar of the languages of Eastern Africa and a distinguished Maasai speaking Christian and translator,Mol worked in Maasailand for almost 2 decades and his work derives from his own experiance in learning the Maasai language.ontains detailed bibliography.
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To the heart of the Nile : Lady Florence Baker and the exploration of central Africa

By: Shipman, Pat

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Morrow,: 2004

Seller ID: 11257095

ISBN: 0060505559

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

cloth, duat jacket, xviii, 428 pages : illustrations, maps, maps on lining papers,,bibliography, index, as new copy, A portrait drawn from historical documents discusses the nineteenth-century adventurer's rescue from slavery, her education under and marriage to English adventurer Sam Baker, and her life in the uncharted interior of Africa.
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Tracing God's walking stick in Maa : a study of Maasai society, culture and religion, a missionary Approach

By: Voshaar Jan

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Nijmegen.The Netherlands, Doktoraalscriptie Katholieke Universiteit: 1979

Seller ID: 11257004

Binding: Paperbound

Condition: Very Good

pict. paper covers, cloth spine, 347 pages.in very good condition. unpublished PhD thesis,
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Category: Africa

ON TREK IN KORDOFAN : the diaries of a British district officer in the Sudan, 1931-1933

THE MONUMENTS OF EGYPT : the Napoleonic edition : the complete archaeological plates from la Description de l'Egypte

THE AFRICAN WANDERERS; Or, The Adventures of Carlos and Antonio, Embracing Interesting Descriptions of the Manners and Customs of the Tribes, and the Natural Productions of the Country.

THE MASAI by MERKER An English Translation

A dictionnary of the Maasai language and folklore English-Maasai , Signed Copy

To the heart of the Nile : Lady Florence Baker and the exploration of central Africa

Tracing God's walking stick in Maa : a study of Maasai society, culture and religion, a missionary Approach