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FRENCH-SHELDON, May.

Sultan to sultan.

Adventures among the Masai and other tribes of east Africa.

Stock Code
104948
Boston, Arena, 1892
£650

May French Sheldon (1848-1936), an energetic American, writes of the pioneering safari she led in 1891 from Mombasa to the Masai lands beyond Mount Kilimanjaro and back. 'Full of adventures and enormously (if unconsciously) entertaining.' (Robinson). The edition was published simultaneously in Boston and London (the Saxon Press). The illustrations are interesting showing a variety of domestic objects, costume, jewellery, etc.

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Description

First edition. 8vo, inscribed by the author, number 983 of an unspecified limitation signed by the publisher, [viii], 435 pp., frontispiece, map. 25 full-page illustrations, original red cloth gilt, bevelled edges, light wear, an excellent copy.

Bibliography

Robinson p 27.

Stock ID:104948

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