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2 volumes. First edition. Illustrated with 60 plates from the author's own sketches and drawings, some i colour, one folding colour map. 8vo, original dark blue cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt on the spines, upper covers lettered in gilt with a gilt vignette. Publisher s paper file copy label also on upper covers. xvi, 359, 16 ads; xii, 388 (including index). A handsome set, rarely seen in such nice shape, the cloth with only minimal rubbing at the edges or extremities, internally fresh and clean with minor spotting to the prelims only. SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THIS ILLUSTRATED SET. This work begins with a brief history of the missionary foundations laid prior to Tucker s arrival and then encompasses the eighteen years that Tucker spent there (1874-1892), much of it as Bishop of Uganda . "Although this work touches, not infrequently, upon events having to do with the political, material and spiritual history, advancement, and development of Uganda and East Africa, it does not profess to be a complete record of them. It is simply a story of Episcopal Missionary life and work in Equatorial Africa" [preface]. Complete with the hand-drawn and -painted sketches of the native people and environments that Turner is especially well-known for including in many of his writings, this detailed portrayal of missionary life and work in the Uganda area at the turn of the century remains a classic travel narrative. Seller Inventory # 28301
Bibliographic Details
Title: EIGHTEEN YEARS IN UGANDA & EAST AFRICA.
Publisher: London Edward Arnold 1908
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
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