STUART CLOETE -African Giant - Frontispiece Notable or leader of village of Kizulu near Matiadi

, Black and white plates: Desert horseman, Kuri ox from Lake Chad, Fulani girls near Kano, Mounted Bida spearman, Emir of Bida's trumpeters, The Emir of Bida, Altar at Benin, Monuments of the Asafo, Chief's umbrellas and drums, Woman chewing newly severed goat's leg, Fishing canoes at Senya Beraku, Witch doctor's assistants in a circumcision dance, Right Honourable Kwame Nkrumah, Drummer in hysteria, Bapende hair styles, Bapende Chief, Topeke girls dancing, Dancers with arrow-pierced faces, Pretty girl Congo, Wagenia Fishing traps, Trained elephants bathing and drinking, Pygmy chief, Piegmies dancing, Author with chimpanzee.

Maos: Tangayika and Southern Kenia, North&South Rhodesia, Nigeria, Gold Coast, Liberia, Congo

Record of one year's travel in Africa from the Cape to the Sahara by the noted South African novelist. Southern Africa. The appendix gives the tribal oaths of the Mau Mau. Conover 29: 'Report on a year of Based on the author's extensive travels with his wife including west, central, east and travel covering all Africa south of the Sahara, by Stuart Cloete.

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London, Collins, 1956, First British edition, 8vo,448 pp, numerous photo plates, maps, map endpapers showing author's route, index, orig red cloth, gilt spine title lettering faded (sun-bleached) still readable.  Little damage to red cloth top and lower spine's cloth. Few marks on red cloth. Well-binded, map end pages, text clear, no writing in book, little age spotting, mostly on endpages. Previous owner's name small on first end page. 448 pages with index.