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COOMASSIE: The Story of The Campaign In Africa 1878-4, Being the First Part of the Original Volume entitled ?Coomassie and Magdala?
Sampson Low, Marston & Co, 1896
434.50 €
Buddenbrooks Inc.
(Newburyport, United States of America)
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Edizione: a very scarce title a very scarce title in the stanley oeuvre. marvelous illustrations throughout with vivid scenes of native life, costume, landscape, and culture. <br> coomassie and magdala is the story of the great british campaigns in east and west africa. here coomassie is published for the first time in one volume of its own, a complete account of the british campaign with some superb illustrations. stanley wrote his description while a special correspondent of the new york herald.<br> ?coomassie was a town insulated by a deadly swamp. a thick jungly forest - so dense that the sun seldom pierced the foliage; so sickly that the strongest fell victims to the malaria it cherished - surrounded it to a depth of 140 miles seaward, many hundred miles east, as many more west, and 100 miles north. through this forest and swamp, unrelieved by a single novelty or a single pretty landscape, the british army had to march.? henry stanley, from his preface.