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2008 large black hardcover w beige DJ, ex-library, in very good condition; some wear to covers, some stamps and writing, good binding. US media mail for shipping. At 4 lbs 9 oz., it barely makes foreign delivery possible through ASCENDIA with biblio.com. It won't be cheap.Extraordinary photographs, along with extensive captions, document the transition from a barely explored paradise to a modern nation.
This stunning collection of 720 photographs, many of them drawn from family archives and scrapbooks and all carefully restored, is one of the most important visual records of Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ever to have been published.The early photographers captured the beauty and dangerous allure of life on this spectacular frontier: the ceremonies and traditional attire of the native people, the fantastic machinery used in construction of the Uganda Railway, the gradual development of trade on the coast and in the country's interior, the hardships of the East African… Read More