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Africana;

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Or, the Heart of Heathen Africa.

Africana;

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Or, the Heart of Heathen Africa.

Stock Code 96073

London: Simpkin Marshall & Co., 1882

First edition of this important account of Malawi, from the celebrated travel collection of Franklin Brooke-Hitching, with his pencilled initials to the half-titles

Macdonald (1850-1929) arrived in the Shire Highlands in July 1878 as the first ordained minister of the newly-established Church of Scotland mission at Blantyre. During his tenure the mission assumed control of what Macdonald himself referred to as "civil jurisdiction", and became implicated in numerous abuses, including routine corporal punishment of locals, and the large-scale expropriation of land "partly to forestall Portuguese claims to the sovereignty of the Shire Highlands" (Morris, An Environmental History of Southern Malawi, p. 53). Macdonald and others were recalled by the Foreign Mission Committee in 1881, and he spent the rest of his life as a parish minister. Despite the circumstances of his tenure, considered disreputable even by the standards of the day, his account is considered a "pioneer ethnographic study of the Yao" (ibid.) in a remarkably sympathetic vein.

First edition. 2 vols, 8vo ( 23 x 15 cm) 371pp; bound in original yellow cloth, spines and front boards lettered and decorated in gilt and black, rear board ruled in blind; housed in a blue cloth slipcase.

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Our Bookshop and Gallery can be found in the heart of Mayfair at 106 New Bond Street, where most of our stock is available to view and on public display.

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Africana;

MACDONALD, Duff.

Stock code: 96073

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