The Barotseland Journal of James Stevenson-Hamilton 1898-1899,Central African Archives Oppenheimer Series Number Seven, hardcover, index, 245 pages, foldout map, 18 cms x 26 cms, condition: very good.

Contains five colour illustrations, half-tone frontispiece portrait of the author and a map of Northern Rhodesia. Scarlet buckram with top edge gilt, spine slightly faded, uncut pages. 

A journal by James Stevenson-Hamilton of the navigability of the Zambesi river. The diary gives a detailed picture of the Barotse.

James Stevenson-Hamilton (2 October 1867 10 December 1957) served from 19021946 as the first warden of South Africa's Sabi Nature Reserve, which was expanded under his watch and became  in 1926. The  nicknamed him  because when he arrived at the area of the reserve he "turned everything upside down" with the banning of all hunting in the reserve and the relocation of all the native .  camp and  is named in honour of Stevenson-Hamilton, who is regarded as a champion of wildlife conservation in .