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Tropical Africa

Title
Tropical Africa / by Henry Drummond.
Author
Drummond, Henry, 1851-1897
Publication
London : Hodder and Stoughton, 27, Paternoster Row, MDCCCLXXXVIII. [1888]

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Additional Authors
  • Hodder and Stoughton, publisher.
  • R. & R. Clark (Firm), printer.
Description
x, 228 pages, [5] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, maps; 21 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subjects
Note
  • With a half-title.
  • "Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh."--colophon, page 228.
Provenance (note)
  • is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Contents
ch. 1. The water-route to the heart of Africa -- The East African lake country: Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa -- ch. 3. The aspect of the heart of Africa: the country and its people -- ch. 4. The heart-disease of Africa: its pathology and cure -- ch. 5. Wanderings on the Nyassa-Tanganyika plateau: a traveller's diary -- ch. 6. The white ant: a theory -- ch. 7. Mimicry: the ways of African insects -- ch. 8. A geological sketch -- ch. 9. A political warning -- ch. 10. A meteorological note.
Call Number
Sc 916.76-D (Drummond, H. Tropical Africa. 1888)
OCLC
  • 11253827
  • NYPGR11253827-B
Author
Drummond, Henry, 1851-1897, author.
Title
Tropical Africa / by Henry Drummond.
Publisher
London : Hodder and Stoughton, 27, Paternoster Row, MDCCCLXXXVIII. [1888]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Provenance
Copy in Sc 916.76-D (accession no. B530020) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
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Added Author
Hodder and Stoughton, publisher.
R. & R. Clark (Firm), printer.
Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
Research Call Number
Sc 916.76-D (Drummond, H. Tropical Africa. 1888)
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