Research Catalog

Title

On the South African frontier : the adventures and observations of an American in Mashonaland and Matabeleland / by William Harvey Brown ; with illustrations and maps.

Author

Brown, William Harvey, 1862-1913

Publication

• New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899.
• ©1899

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Details

Additional Authors

• Charles Scribner's Sons, publisher.
• Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company, printer.

Description

xxii, [2], 430 pages, [33] leaves of plates (2 folded) : illustrations, maps; 22 cm

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subject

• Frontier and pioneer life > Zimbabwe
• Shona (African people)
• Ndebele (African people)
• Zimbabwe > Description and travel
• Mashonaland Central Province (Zimbabwe) > Description and travel
• South Africa > Description and travel

Genre/Form

• Bookplates (Provenance)
• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• "Copyright, 1899, by Charles Scribner's Sons."--verso of title page.
• "Trow Directory Printing and Bookbinding Company New York."--verso of title page.
• Frontispiece illustration included in pagination.

Provenance (note)

• with the bookplate: "Ex libris G.A. Jr." ; Inscribed: in ink on front pastedown "A.A. Schomburg." ; With the ink stamp: "Schomburg Collection." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

ch. 1. The west coast of Africa -- ch. 2. From Saint Paul de Loanda to Cunga -- ch. 3. A fortnight on the Coanza River -- ch. 4. Cape Town and British colonial expansion -- ch. 5. From Cape Town to Mafeking -- ch. 6. From Mafeking to the Tuli River -- ch. 7. Cutting a road through the wilderness -- ch. 8. Crossing the Mashonaland plateau -- ch. 9. Big game and the rush to the gold-fields -- ch. 10. More big game hunting -- ch. 11. The gold fever, and a hunt for claims -- ch. 12. Some historic events -- ch. 13. The seamy side of life at Hartley -- ch. 14. Domestic life of the Mashonas -- ch. 15. Mashona characteristics and customs -- ch. 16. Six weeks' sport near the Angwa River -- ch. 17. Law and order in the early days -- ch. 18. Rhodesia before the occupation -- ch. 19. Beginning of the Matabele troubles -- ch. 20. Tchininga attempts to wipe us out -- ch. 21. A trip to the Indian Ocean -- ch. 22. Rhodesia as an agricultural country -- ch. 23. The Matabele revolt -- ch. 24. More skirmishes with the Matabeles -- ch. 25. The Mashona rising -- ch. 26. Return to Mashonaland -- ch. 27. Post-bellum observations -- ch. 28. The race problem -- ch. 29. Rhodesia to-day.

Call Number

Sc 916.89-B (Brown, W. On the South African frontier)

LCCN

99000014

OCLC

• 2651195
• NYPGR2651195-B

Author

Brown, William Harvey, 1862-1913, author.

Title

On the South African frontier : the adventures and observations of an American in Mashonaland and Matabeleland / by William Harvey Brown ; with illustrations and maps.

Publisher

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899.

Copyright Date

©1899

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc 916.89-B (accession no. B593885) with the bookplate: "Ex libris G.A. Jr." ; Inscribed: in ink on front pastedown "A.A. Schomburg." ; With the ink stamp: "Schomburg Collection." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Charles Scribner's Sons, publisher.

Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company, printer.

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

Research Call Number

Sc 916.89-B (Brown, W. On the South African frontier)

BNN (Brown, W. H. On the South African frontier)

D-20 5024