A City of the Dawn by Robert Keable. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1915 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
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A City of the Dawn by Robert Keable. This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1915 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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Very Good. xv + 244pp, 16 illustrations. A portrait of Zanzibar by a missionary teacher, resident there in the early years of the 20th century. Scarce, interesting item. Publisher's original blue cloth with blind stamp titles to front board and gilt titles to spine. Previous owner's inscription else clean text and illustrations throughout. Robert Keable (b. Worthing 1887; Magdalene College Cambridge), served as a missionary to Africa before the First World War, then went to the Western Front as chaplain to a contingent of native South African labourers. Though married, he struck up a wartime affair, then after the war left his wife for his mistress. He wrote a somewhat scandalous novel entitled Simon Called Peter about an Anglican padre who has a passionate affair with a nurse at the front. He resigned his church living, converted to Catholicism, and soon retired to Tahiti, where he continued his scandalous behaviour by speaking out for open marriages. He continued to write and live in Tahiti until he died in 1927. This copy from the collection of noted Africana collector Humphrey Winterton, with his oval initialled book-plate. Scarce. CB1.