Research Catalog

Title

The kingdom of the Barotsi, Upper Zambezia : a voyage of exploration in Africa, returning by the Victoria Falls, Matabeleland, the Transvaal, Natal, and the Cape / by Alfred Bertrand ; translated by A.B. Miall ; with 97 illustrations and two maps.

Author

Bertrand, Alfred, 1856-1924

Publication

Cape Town ; Johannesburg ; Port Elizabeth ; Stellenbosch : J.C. Juta & Co., 1899.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Miall, Bernard, 1876-1953
• Juta and Company, publisher.
• Gresham Press, printer.

Description

xx, 304 pages, [3] leaves of plates (2 folded) : illustrations, maps, portraits; 24 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Subjects

• Ethnology > South Africa
• Western Province (Zambia) > Description and travel
• Ethnology > Zambia > Western Province
• Lozi (African people)
• South Africa > Description and travel

Note

• Translation of: Au pays des Ba-Rotsi, Haut-Zambèze.
• With a half-title.
• "Unwin Brothers, The Gresham Press, Woking and London."--printer statement, foot of page 304.

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

ch. 1. The voyage: from Southampton to the Cape by the "Norham Castle" -- ch. 2. In the diamond-mining country -- ch. 3. The home of the Bechuanas -- ch. 4. In the desert -- ch. 5. The Zambezi -- ch. 6. In the kingdom of the Barotsi ; The river Machili -- ch. 7. Across the Kingdom of the Barotsi -- ch. 8. King Lewanika and the missionary, M. Coillard -- ch. 9. By canoe -- ch. 10. The great cataracts -- ch. 11. In distress -- ch. 12. The outposts of civilisation -- ch. 13. The gold-mining country -- ch. 14. The garden of South Africa ; The return -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Appendix III.

Call Number

Sc 916.89-B (Bertrand, A. Kingdom of the Barotsi)

OCLC

• 8547592
• NYPGR8547592-B

Author

Bertrand, Alfred, 1856-1924, author.

Title

The kingdom of the Barotsi, Upper Zambezia : a voyage of exploration in Africa, returning by the Victoria Falls, Matabeleland, the Transvaal, Natal, and the Cape / by Alfred Bertrand ; translated by A.B. Miall ; with 97 illustrations and two maps.

Publisher

Cape Town ; Johannesburg ; Port Elizabeth ; Stellenbosch : J.C. Juta & Co., 1899.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc 916.89-B (accession no. B593888) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Full text available via HathiTrust (University of California copy)

Added Author

Miall, Bernard, 1876-1953, translator.

Juta and Company, publisher.

Gresham Press, printer.

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

Research Call Number

Sc 916.89-B (Bertrand, A. Kingdom of the Barotsi)