1931 first edition hardcover with 431 pages in good condition. Name in ink in front. Binding becoming loose between title page and frontispiece.

John Henderson Soga has written an incredibly detailed and very valuable account of how the Ama-Xosa lived before, and were still living in the 1930s.

Part 1: Historical, including Composition of a tribe, Xosa Law, War, Physical and temperamental characteristics.

Part 2: Sociological, including Life and customs, sacrifice, beliefs, charms, marriage customs, circumcision, lobola, mother and infant, children's games, old age, proverbs, taboos, sport, land tenure. 32 b/w plates, photographs taken by Rev. R.H.W. Shepherd; Dr Richard Ross; H. E. Smale, A.M. Duggin-Cronin, map of Nongxokozelo War.