Research Catalog

Title

Twenty-five years in a waggon in the gold regions of Africa / by Andrew A. Anderson ; with illustrations by the author ; in two volumes ; vol. I[-II]

Author

Anderson, Andrew A., active 1863-1887

Publication

London : Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1887.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chapman and Hall, publisher.
• Gilbert & Rivington, printer.

Description

2 volumes : illustrations; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• South Africa > Description and travel
• Ethnology > South Africa
• Indigenous peoples > Africa, Southern
• Africa, Southern > Description and travel
• Ethnology > Africa, Southern
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Indigenous peoples > South Africa

Genre/Form

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• With a half-title in both volumes.
• "London: Printed by Gilbert and Rivington, Limited, St. John's House, Clerkenwell Road."--printer statement, verso of half-title page in both volumes.
• "Gilbert and Rivington, Ltd., St. John's House, Clerkenwell Road, London."--printer statement, colophon of volume 1 (page 307); "London: Printed by Gilbert and Rivington, Limited, St. John's House, Clerkenwell Road."--printer statement, colophon of volume 2 (page [2] at end.)
• Volume 1: vii [i.e. viii], [2], 307, [1] pages, [8] leaves of plates; Volume 2: vi, [2], 253, [3] pages, [6] leaves of plates.

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on back of frontispiece plates in volumes 1 and 2 "A.A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

• vol. 1. ch. 1. Natal: in Natal ; Preparing for my long-promised explorations into the far interior -- ch. 2. My first start across the Drakensberg Mountains ; Visit Harrysmith, Wakkerstroom, Utrich, Newcastle, home -- ch. 3. Final departure for the unknown land ; The happy hunting-ground -- ch. 4. The native country north of the Vaal River -- ch. 5. On Griqualand west, the Griquas, Korannas, Bushmen, and diamond fields -- ch. 6. The Bechuana family ; Their division into tribes ; Their past and present condition.
• vol. 2. ch. 1. Great Namaqualand -- ch. 2. Damaraland ; South central Africa -- ch. 3. Ovampoland -- ch. 4. The Transvaal Republic -- ch. 5. A brief historical sketch of the Transvaal from 1825 to 1877 -- ch. 6. The physical geography of the Transvaal, and other subjects, continued -- ch. 7. General remarks on the Transvaal -- ch. 8. South central Africa ; Its territorial divisions and boundaries -- ch. 9. The region north of the Transvaal under Lo-Bengulu, the Matabele king ; Its physical geography and note on my explanations -- ch. 10. The physical geography of that part of the Mashona and Matabeleland on the north of the watershed dividing the Zambese and Limpopo Basins, under the rule of the Matabele king, with notes on my explorations in the Zambese Basin -- ch. 11. Mashona and Matabeleland continued, with notes on the country and people, which is within the Zambese Basin -- ch. 12. The physical geographical features of that region lying between the Matabele and Mashona country, and the Indian Ocean, now under the rule of the Chief Umzila and other chiefs -- ch. 13. The Portuguese possessions on the east coast, within south central Africa -- ch. 14. A cursory glance at those ports of South Africa that occupy the extreme south of the African continent south of south central Africa.

Call Number

Sc 916.8-A (Anderson, A. Twenty-five years in a waggon)

LCCN

17023071

OCLC

• 13844995
• NYPGR13844995-B

Author

Anderson, Andrew A., active 1863-1887, author.

Title

Twenty-five years in a waggon in the gold regions of Africa / by Andrew A. Anderson ; with illustrations by the author ; in two volumes ; vol. I[-II]

Publisher

London : Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1887.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc 916.8-A (accession nos. B593873) inscribed: in ink on back of frontispiece plates in volumes 1 and 2 "A.A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Full text available via HathiTrust - v. 1 (Yale University copy)

Full text available via HathiTrust - v. 2 (Yale University copy)

Added Author

Chapman and Hall, publisher.

Gilbert & Rivington, printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

Research Call Number

Sc 916.8-A (Anderson, A. Twenty-five years in a waggon)