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Dean, Captain Harry, With Sterling North

The Pedro Groin; The Adventures of a Negro Sea-Captain in Africa and on the Seven Seas in his Attempts to Found an Ethiopian Empire, an Autobiographical Narrative

1929

78,96 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1929
Luogo di stampa
Boston and New York. Houghton Mifflin Company
Autore
Dean, Captain Harry, With Sterling North
Edizione
First edition.
Soggetto
Travel - Africa
Lingue
Inglese
Prima edizione

Descrizione

8vo [22.5 x 15.5 cm]; xvi, 262 pp, illus, vignette in green on title. original green pebbled cloth with gilt spine title lettering and decoration, near fine partly unopened copy in dj (price clipped, tape repairs on verso, chipped at edge, rubbed). A picture of this book is available upon request by email. A fascinating account of Dean's travels along the coasts of Africa, trading in gold, diamonds, ivory and ostrich plumes and his travels through the jungles trying to establish a Black Empire. He had known Cecil Rhodes, Conrad, Sir Alfred Milner, made and lost great fortunes, and recounts here his fifty years of adventures.
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