Description

Hardcover, red cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 266pp., Map. Vol. I only. Edited, with an introduction by I. Schapera. First edition. Mild staining to top edge of text block and minor foxing to upper rear panel of dust-jacket. “Vivid and sometimes extremely outspoken, [the letters] contain much detail about his relations with fellow missionaries, Boers and Native chiefs, and about his own journeys into the interior; they afford new insights into his religious outlook, conceptions of missionary enterprise, scientific and linguistic interests, and medical knowledge.” No previous ownership marks. A square, sound, tightly bound copy in complete dust-jacket. Volume I only [of II]. Very good in a near very good dust-jacket.