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HILTON-SIMPSON, M. W. Land and Peoples of the Kasai. Being a Narrative of a Two Years' Journey among the Cannibals of the Equatorial Forest and Other Savage Tribes of the South-Western Congo.

Catalogue: Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson

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Lot 189
HILTON-SIMPSON, M. W. Land and Peoples of the Kasai. Being a Narrative of a Two Years' Journey among the Cannibals of the Equatorial Forest and Other Savage Tribes of the South-Western Congo.
London: Constable and Company, 1911. First edition. Publisher's green cloth with mounted color illustration to upper cover, top edge gilt. 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches; xx, 356 pp.; color frontispiece with tissue guard, folding map, plates (some colored), half-title. Extremities rubbed, slight edgewear to map.
"While primarily an ethnological study of the Kasai people, Simpson writes well of the surrounding country. He took time from his observations to hunt buffalo and hippopotamus on the Kwilu River at Pana. There is an excellent colored plate of the author bagging his buffalo" (Czech). Czech, Africa, pp. 127-128.


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Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson

Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11am EDT