This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... rain, 12 so the colour of the ground is a faded yellow with streaks and patches of bright brown in it, while the shadow of the passing cloud stains each surface that it touches a claret red. The most conspicuous object in this part of the Rift Valley is the extinct volcano of Longonot. It is an ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... rain, 12 so the colour of the ground is a faded yellow with streaks and patches of bright brown in it, while the shadow of the passing cloud stains each surface that it touches a claret red. The most conspicuous object in this part of the Rift Valley is the extinct volcano of Longonot. It is an immense isolated mountain rising abruptly from the plain with a crater on its summit. It is a mountain very difficult to get rid of, since it is possible to travel in the valley in one direction for a week and yet not pass out of sight of Longonot. Seen close at hand it is a burnt-up cone curiously bare of vegetation. Its sides are deeply scored with a thousand gullies and ravines which run vertically from crater to base, and which are as precisely outlined as the ridges and furrows of a pleated cloth. These terrific channels give the mountain a shrivelled or wrinkled appearance, and were Longonot in England there is no doubt that these fissures would be recognised by legend as the scratch marks of the Devil's nails. CHAPTER XVII A SAFARI IN THE RIFT VALLEY A Little way beyond Longonot is the town of Naivasha. It stands in the floor of the Rift Valley by the eastern border of Lake Naivasha. The little settlement has many advantages. It is admirably placed, it commands a delightful view of the lake, it is healthy and possessed of a perfect climate. Mosquitoes happily do not frequent the valley, so malaria is unknown. Moreover, Naivasha lies on the railway and is the centre of a singularly rich and attractive country. It may be safely predicted that it will rise to a position of eminence and become, in the course of years, one of the prominent towns of British East Africa. At present it may escape notice as a town or even as a village, so very...
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Very Good. 230pp, 72 period photos of Kenya & Uganda, folding map. Nicely recased retaining original pictorial cloth & gilt front board, new eps. VG+. Despite the title, is mostly concerned with the British East African Protectorate (Kenya). Interesting chapters on Mombasa, the Uganda Railway, the Masai, Nairobi in the early 1900's, the Rift Valley, Safaris, Nakuru, Port Florence (Kisumu), Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria-Nyanza, Kampala, the Nile, etc. Sir Frederick Treves was the celebrated Victorian surgeon who had treated the real-life Elephant Man.
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Very Good. 230pp, 72 period photos of Kenya & Uganda, folding map. Publisher's original pictorial cloth & gilt front board, eps browned else tight, clean and unmarked. VG+. Despite its title, the book is mostly concerned with the British East African Protectorate (Kenya). Interesting chapters on Mombasa, the Uganda Railway, the Masai, Nairobi in the early 1900's, the Rift Valley, Safaris, Nakuru, Port Florence (Kisumu), Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria-Nyanza, Kampala, the Nile, etc. Sir Frederick Treves was the celebrated Victorian surgeon who had treated the real-life Elephant Man. CB15.