Author: William Walter Augustine Fitzgerald
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, British East
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Travels in the Coastlands of British East Africa and the Islands of Zanzibar and Pemba
Author: William Walter Augustine Fitzgerald
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, British East
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, British East
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
"The Red Book,"
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Literature of Travel and Exploration
Author: Jennifer Speake
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135456631
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1425
Book Description
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135456631
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1425
Book Description
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
The Swahili-Speaking Peoples of Zanzibar and the East African Coast (Arabs, Shirazi and Swahili)
Author: A. H. J. Prins
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315310236
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315310236
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.
Slaves and Slavery in Muslim Africa: The servile estate
Author: John Ralph Willis
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714632018
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714632018
Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Statesman's Year Book
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1592
Book Description
The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: J. Scott-Keltie
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270441
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1611
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270441
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1611
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
The Geographical Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
The Statesman's Year-book
Author: Frederick Martin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1628
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1628
Book Description
Agricultural Innovation in Colonial Africa
Author: I. D. Talbott
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780889462625
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This is a study which aims to uncover the role played by African agriculture during the Great Depression of the 1930's with particular emphasis on innovation and change. The volume investigates the development of the goverment's program, the agricultural experimentation and the effects of encouragement on the provinces of Coast, Nyanza and Central. It examines the factors that prompted the colonial administration to take action to alter the nature of African farming in Kenya.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780889462625
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This is a study which aims to uncover the role played by African agriculture during the Great Depression of the 1930's with particular emphasis on innovation and change. The volume investigates the development of the goverment's program, the agricultural experimentation and the effects of encouragement on the provinces of Coast, Nyanza and Central. It examines the factors that prompted the colonial administration to take action to alter the nature of African farming in Kenya.