Description
Facsimile reproduction of the 1902 edition with a new Foreword. [xiv],x, 447pp, 2 large maps (both folding, one 2-coloured), Frontispiece author photograph, 96 further black & white illustrations. Cloth-textured papered boards with silver spine titling and decoration, and silver devices on top board, with dust wrapper (trifling rubbing). Very good.
Extract :
Theorizes on the exotic origins of Zimbabwe and seeks o prove that the Ophir of the time of King Solomon was the country between the lower Zambesi and the Limpopo rivers. It also endeavours to identify the kingdom of the Macombe with that of Monotapa, and to show that Egyptian “Punt”expeditions were taken to tiis part of the continen. The narrative covers explorations from 1896 to 1902, most of it ranging over the present day fighting zone which lies astride the Rhodesian Mocambique border ………
(NB if you wanted to collect the full Rhodesiana Reprint Library Silver Series it would be 24 volumes)
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