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Slaves and Ivory in Abyssinia: A Record of Adventure and Exploration Among the Ethiopian Slave-raiders

by Darley, H.

Publisher : Negro Universities Press
Published In : New York
Illustrations : b/w photos, 2 maps

Description:

Reprint of the second edition, first published 1935. Henry Darley's account of his time as an ivory hunter in Abyssinia, his run-ins with slave raiders and their inhuman brutality, and his disapproval of colonial unwillingness to act against the Abyssinian slave trade.

Condition

8vo, orig. cloth. Vg. From the library of entomologist and traveller Guillaume Marie de Rougemont (1945-2020), who had a particular interest in Ethiopia, with his name to endpaper.