MEINERTZHAGEN (Col. Richard, CBE, DSO)
Kenya Diary 1902-1906.
1st Ed., viii+347pp., num. plates, several sketch maps. Oliver & Boyd.
1957
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Joined Royal Fusiliers 1899 & attached to 3rd Bn. King's African Rifles in East Africa 1902-06, particularly in the Nandi country which he observed & recorded in detail, from ethnography & geography to military arrangements & colonial expansion at a critical stage. The first (& scarcest) of Meinertzhagen's remarkable trilogy of memoirs. Sl. speckled sp. o/w nice copy in orig. brown cloth (without dw). See illustration on our website.
£65
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