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8vo, pp. xvi, 503, [1]; with 2 folding maps, 33 illustrations on plates; a very good, crisp copy in original green cloth with gilt vignette and lettering to upper cover, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt; lettering faded, some wear to extremities, endpapers renewed.Second edition, revised and enlarged from the first, of Lord Cranworth's description of British East Africa, a protectorate territory largely equivalent to modern-day Kenya. Cranworth, a soldier who fought and was wounded in the Boer War, devotes chapters to the history, the climate, the demographics, the anthropology, the trade and agriculture, the geography and the education of a country which 'was not even a name' less than a generation ago, but which, according to Cranworth, is 'in some respects the most peculiar of His Majesty's Dominions, in that within so comparatively small an area it embraces so much of variety; variety of climate, variety of soil, of human inhabitants, of flora, of fauna, and finally of possibilities for British enterprise' (pp. 1-2). In addition, there is 'considerable information on big game, its location, methods of stalking, and the game reserves' (Czech) including reference to 'a curious creature called the gu-gu, an apelike creature with but one eye and a huge spike at the end of one arm' (pp. 332-333). The first edition entitled (as suggested in the title) A colony in the making was published in 1912. This, the second edition, was revised and enlarged from the first, and includes a new preface and four new chapters, on the history of the country, on the Flax Industry, on new possibilities and experiments, and finally a short history of the East Africa campaign. Czech, p. 42 (first edition); Hosken, p. 52. Seller Inventory # T5058.124
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