Stuart Cloete THE AFRICAN GIANT First Edition
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Stuart Cloete THE AFRICAN GIANT First Edition
First UK first edition, first print hardback of THE AFRICAN GIANT - The Story of a Journey, by Stuart Cloete and first published by Collins, London, in 1956. Illustrated with black & white photographs and 6 maps by Rehna Cloete. Frontis drawing by Tanghe. Jacket design by John Woodcock.The book is in very good condition (clean red cloth boards and gold lettering on spine, slight creasing to the edges) with slight wear to the dust jacket, which is not price clipped (some creasing, a small chipping to bottom corner, some yellowing & foxing inside the jacket, some foxing to the back and some discoloring to the spine with some tanning to the edges of the flaps). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions. There is some foxing to the front & back few pages and page ends."That the giant is waking there is no doubt, and our need to assess his purpose and his potential strength has become urgent. Stuart Cloete, whose books have been one of the richest and most entertaining sources of our knowledge of South Africa, writes now of a years travel, accompanied by his wife, from the Cape to the deserts of the north. In this we face the paradoxes of the Dark Continent, hear the testimony of emirs and missionaries, of career diplomats and native doctors, and see that the overwhelming problem of education of the African particularly of the African woman towers above all the others challenging that uneasy land.8?" x 5?". 448 pages. Map on the endpapers.ISBN: n/a
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