General Rigby, Zanzibar and the Slave Trade,  (Burton & Speke interest) (1935)

General Rigby, Zanzibar and the Slave Trade, (Burton & Speke interest) (1935)

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General Rigby, Zanzibar and the Slave Trade - With Journals, Dispatches, Etc. Edited by his daughter, Mrs. Charles E.B. Russell

FIRST EDITION, published by London, George Allen & Unwin., 1935, hardcover, 404 pages, also publishers advertisments, 22 cms x 15 cms x 3.2 cms, corners bumped on front board, ex central reference library book (never lent out) with usual stamps & labels, original blue cloth without the dust jacket, slight sun fading to spine otherwise condition: very good.

Fold-out map at rear showing "General Rigby's Career in H.M Service". 

Early Life in the Service, India, Aden, Leave in Europe, 1836-1853 / Persia, 1854-1858 / Zanzibar, Diary and Personal Letters (1858-1861) / Zanzibar and the Slave Trade [with] The United States, Portugal, France, Persia and Arabia / The East Coast Slave Trade After 1861 / Explorers / etc. A biography of the life and times of a Major-General Christopher Palmer Rigby (1820-1885) who served in various positions across the far-flung British Empire, most notably as Consul in Zanzibar and Muscat. At Zanzibar he sought to stamp out the slave trade and took an active role in assisting British geographic explorers such as Captains Burton and Speke who journeyed to Lake Tangangyika and Victoria Nyanza. He was a noted linguist and an early member of the Royal Geographic Society (Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, Vol.7, No. 6)

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