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Swedish ventures in Cameroon, 1883-1923 : trade and travel, people and politics : the memoir of Knut Knutson with supporting material

Title
Swedish ventures in Cameroon, 1883-1923 : trade and travel, people and politics : the memoir of Knut Knutson with supporting material / edited and with commentaries by Shirley Ardener.
Author
Knutson, Knut, 1857-1930.
Publication
New York : Berghahn Books, 2002.

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Ardener, Shirley.
Description
xv, 288 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Cameroon studies ; v. 4
Uniform Title
Cameroon studies ; v. 4.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-282) and index.
Contents
Preface: How I came to edit the memoir / Shirley Ardener -- Pt. I. Introduction / Shirley Ardener -- 1. Biographical Notes on Knutson and Waldau -- 2. The Manuscript -- Pt. II. Knutson's Memoir: The Cameroon Mountains and the Biafran Swamps -- 1. From Sweden to Cameroon -- 2. Fauna and Flora -- 3. Misery and India-rubber -- 4. The German Invasion 1884-1885 -- 5. Travel in the Interior 1885 -- 6. The Ancient Races -- 7. Adventures on Cameroon Mountains and in Biaffran Swamps -- 8. Religion and Customs of the Bakweri and Bomboko -- 9. The Slave Trade -- 10. Black and White -- 11. The Missionaries, the Explorers and the Men I met at the Cameroons -- 12. The Future of the Cameroons -- Pt. III. Land and Plantations / Shirley Ardener -- 1. Knutson and Waldau's Contracts with the Notables on the Cameroon Mountain -- 2. Knutson's Legal Battles -- 3. Waldau's Last Years in Cameroon -- Pt. IV. Alternative Perspectives -- 1. About the Ba-kwileh [Bakweri] People / G. Valdau -- 2. Epitome of Waldau's 'A Journey to the Country North of the Cameroon Mountain' / Edwin Ardener and E. M. Chilver -- 3. Sir Richard Burton's Visit to Mapanja, 1861-1862 (Extracts) -- 4. George Thompson's Stay in Mapanja, 1871-1879 / Shirley Ardener -- 5. Stefan Sczole-Rogozinski, 14.4.1861-1.12.96 / Shirley Ardener -- 6. Hugo Zoller, Journalist (transl. Rosemary Frances, Ena Pedersen, Fiona Moore and Marion Berghahn).
ISBN
  • 1571817255 (acid-free paper)
  • 157181311X (pbk.)
LCCN
  • 2002018269
  • R1-323521
OCLC
  • 48026427
  • ocm48026427
  • SCSB-4322760
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries