'Abd al-Rahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, -1901; Afghanistan -- History; Kabul (Afghanistan)
“Here we have the book of a famous big-game shot in which
simplicity and even _naïveté_ are the primary note.... One
can read of the hunting of nearly all the sorts of game....
Illustrated with the best photographs we have seen.”—_Standard._
A Modern Slavery.
The Present Slave Trade in Portuguese W. Africa.
By H. W. NEVINSON.
_Demy 8vo. Illustrated. Price. 6s._
A thrilling story of Mr. Nevinson’s expedition to the heart of the slave
trade country, and the revelations which are now receiving the attention
of the British Government.
’Twixt Sirdar and Menelik.
An Account of a Year’s Expedition from Zeila to Cairo through unknown
Abyssinia.
By the late CAPTAIN M. S. WELLBY (18th Hussars).
_Very Fully Illustrated. Demy 8vo, cloth extra. 16s._
“The description of the practically unknown country through
which the traveller passed ... the curious account of the
‘devil workers’ of Walamo, and the Theory of the Shangkallas,
that the white men are born of thunder and can cause rain, are
full of interest. The book, indeed, is full of interest from
many points of view, and is so brightly written that it might
be read as a mere tale of adventure.”—_Athenæum._
HARPER & BROTHERS, 45, ALBEMARLE ST., LONDON, W.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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