Item #13076 Some African Highways, A Journey of Two Women to Uganda and the Transvaal. Caroline Kirkland.

Some African Highways, A Journey of Two Women to Uganda and the Transvaal

Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1908.

First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. xvi, 345 pp, with 45 illustrations from photographs and a folding map. Introduction by Lieutenant-General Baden-Powell. Publisher's orange cloth stamped in gilt and illustrated in green and brown. Spine and top of front board sunned, small bookplate on front pastedown, else fine, with some pages unopened. Account of two women traveling alone. They landed in Mombasa and boarded the Uganda Railroad, stayed for some time in Entebbe, and then continued on to Der Es Salaam, South Africa, Mozambique, and Zanzibar. Includes a short chapter on the Chinese workers in the Rand gold mines of South Africa.

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