Zanzibar: The Island Metropolis of Eastern Africa
- Publisher : T. Fisher Unwin
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : frontis, b/w plates, 3 maps (1 folding)
Description:
Francis Barrow Pearce (1866-1926) was a British imperial administrator. In 1914, he was appointed a British Resident (a senior British official) in Zanzibar, working with the protectorate's High Commissioner Henry Conway Belfield (1855-1923).
This work includes chapters on the early history of the island, ‘the Zanzibar and Pema of to-day’, and ‘for the first time the ancient Persian and Arab ruins which lie hidden in the forests of Zanzibar and Pemba’.
Condition
8vo, orig. cloth, light bump to corner of front board; new endpapers. Good ex-lib.: small neat stamps to verso of title page and plates. A printed sheet about this work, 'Extracts from Press Notices' loosely inserted.