Item #12953 Eighteen Years on the Gold Coast of Africa, Including an Account of the Native Tribes and Their Intercourse with Europeans (Two-Volume Set). Brodie Cruickshank.

Cruickshank, Brodie

Eighteen Years on the Gold Coast of Africa, Including an Account of the Native Tribes and Their Intercourse with Europeans (Two-Volume Set)

London: Frank Cass and Co., Ltd, 1966.

Hardcover. Fine. Second edition, reprinting the 1853 edition with a new Introduction by K.A. Busia. Two Volumes, uniformly bound in red cloth with black spine labels, with clear vinyl dust jackets. Both volumes clean and tight. Cruikshank served in the area from 1834-1854 and was a member of the first Legislative Council of the Gold Coast, as well as the first Collector-General of the colony. The work offers insight into the judicial system, music, religion, dance, and social customs of the native people.