1954 1st edition. Hamish Hamilton. London. Pp252. B/w photograph plates, bibliography. Claret boards. Bumped and foxed. Good in torn, price-clipped dust-wrapper.
Notes: Fifteen brief biographies of British and African personalities figuring in the short-lived British settlement of East Africa: adventurers, explorers, missionaries and military men. Tippu Tib, Col. Ewart Grogan, Joseph Thomson, Rev. Arthur Fisher, Sir Albert Cook, Kabarega King of the Bunyoro, John Boyes King of the Kikuyu, the McQueen family, R.O. Preston, Lord Delamere, Robert Foran, Sir Vincent Glenday, Louis Leakey and chapters on 'the white hunters' and the ivory poachers of the Lado Enclave.
