GREAT ZIMBABWE MASHONALAND, RHODESIA: AN ACCOUNT OF TWO YEARS? EXAMINATION WORK IN 1902-1904 ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT OF RHODESIA

Second Edition, with an introduction by Professor A.H. Keane, LL.D., F.R.G.S. Extensively illustrated with over two hundred fine plates, maps. amd plans, a number of which are large and folding. Tall 8vo, publisher?s original red cloth, pictorial decoration and lettering in gilt on upper cover, both covers bordered in blind, spine lettered in gilt with gilt bands at the head and tail. (xliii), 459 pp. A pleasing copy of this elusive book, some light age mellowing to the spine.

Edizione: scarce. this work provides a detailed description of the ruins of great zimbabwe--the first given to the world in modern times. photographs and illustrations profusely included in the book, permit the actual ruins themselves to relate the story of their forgotten past unweighted by tradition, romance and theory. hall expanded and examined the area of the ruins to 2 miles by 1.25 miles where previously it had been thought to have been confined to 945 yds. by 840 yds. he also discovered further ruins in the zimbabwe valley and in the secluded valleys and gorges in the environs. huge mounds were explored and extensive recoveries made. <br> the book is an archaeological work of the first merit. it links semitic monuments with the hundreds of rhodesian workings which yielded at least ?75,000,000. in their time.