Dar Es Salaam, 1948
The first edition was published in 1936 and a second was planned in 1939 but War interrupted publication and so this edition was issued over 12 years later. It has a foreword written by Sir William Denis Battershill, the governor of Tanganika. Chapters on safari, golf and fishing.
Tanganika is now known as Tanzania. It merged with Zanzibar in the 1960s to form a sovereign state.
Second edition. 8vo ( 22 x 14 cm); pp. 160, numerous adverts and two large folding maps, pencilling inside; publisher's pictorial wrappers, spine worn and little cracked; overall a good copy.
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