Description: Full Title: My Apingi Kingdom: With Life in the Great Sahara and Sketches of the Chase of the Ostrich Hyena &c. Condition Continued: Also, it the third page of the Contents pages has several light spots. There are likely a few other less spots over the remainder of the pages. There is a small loss at the outer edge of one page, far from the print. There is a thin crease on the title page, also a slight crease on a few early pages just below the top corner. A few pages have a tiny top corner crease in the section at the end of the book titled Valuable and Interesting Works for Public & Private Libraries Published by Harper & Brothers. The section has ten pages. There are some light bottom corner creases here and there as well. There is a tiny stamped name on the front end paper. There are no other markings in the book. There are no attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. There are 33 illustrations, including the frontispiece. I checked to make sure that all are present. They are. They are also all in very good shape. Harper & Brothers, New York. The date 1870 is on the copyright page, no date on the title page. Early edition. 'A study of African wildlife, culture, and native tribes as they existed in the mid-1800s, written by the first European explorer to confirm the existence of gorillas and African pygmies.Following on from his 'Stories of the Gorilla Country', 'Wild Life Under the Equator', and 'Lost in the Jungle', adventurer Paul du Chaillu describes in vivid detail African life before the advent of European colonization, and the astonishing practices, culture, and environment which existed at that time.Made a king of a tribe after awing them with simple, everyday European items such as shoes, clothes, socks, hats, and guns, Du Chaillu relates how he tried to bring some sort of order into the chaotic and unpredictable tribal life of his subjects, to no avail. He then moves on to describe the lifestyle, culture, and physical appearance of neighboring tribes. During this process, he discusses African slavery, both by their own people and by the Arab slave traders.'
Price: 35 USD
Location: Pound Ridge, New York
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Author: Paul du Chaillu
Topic: African wildlife
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
