Publisher:
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
Published:
1887
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
12405876710
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. No Jacket. Two volume set. Vol. 1: xii + 515pp, map, 14 illustrations. Vol. 2: viii + 525pp, map, 17 illustrations.; 525pp. photograph frontispiece (Walery); coloured fold out map at the end of each volume. 210 x 130 mm (8" x 5")., Newly rebound in half leather, with marbled boards, new end-papers and printed spine-labels. Ex-library with usual marks and stamps. VG+. CB20.
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Very good. 1st Edition. Vol 1: xii, 515; Vol 2: viii, 525pp. Octavo. Original rust-orange cloth boards with gilt lettering on front and spine. Black embossed map on front. Minor bumping to spines. Side foredge uncut. Some pages unopened. Volume 1 has 13 black-and-white plates, sepia frontispiece. One fold-out map. Volume 2 has 18 black-and-white plates. One fold-out map. Textblocks are clean and crisp. very good John MacKenzie (1835-1899) was a Scottish missionary who was sent by the London Missionary Society to South Africa in 1855. He lived in what is presently known as Botwana from 1862 until 1876. MacKenzie became concerned that the African peoples were being threatened by Boer marauders to the south, and politicians who wanted to annex land to the British Cape Colony in the north. He began an extensive campaign which would eventually establish the Bechuanaland Protectorate. These books follow Mackenzie's passionate tribulations up to the establishment of the protectorate. In 1885 the British Government, largely influenced by MacKenzie, sent a military expedition led by Charles Warren to the area to assert their sovereignty. MacKenzie accompained Warren, and detailed his adventure in this set. These lovely volumes are an important resource for discerning the early history of Botswana.