SWAYNE, Harald George Carlos

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SWAYNE, Harald George Carlos
Seventeen Trips Through Somaliland and a Visit to Abyssinia. With Supplementary Preface on the 'Mad Mullah' Risins. Third edition. London, Rowland Ward, 1903. Small in-8 (187 x 124 mm) of XIV, 385 pp. 12 pp. of catalogue. Numerous illustrations including frontispiece, 4 folding maps. Red percale, smooth spine (publisher's binding). Czech, African Big Game, 161. Third edition, the first with the introduction relating the insurrection by Sayid Mohamed Abdullah Hassan. "An excellent game shot, Swayne describes his seventeen journeys into Somaliland's interior from 1884 to 1893" (Czech). This edition has been enriched by the addition of a 14-page preface dealing with the religious and nationalist insurrections of Sayid Mohamed Abdullah Hassan, called by the British of the time the "Mad Mullah", but considered by the Ottoman Porte as the "Emir of the Somalis" and recognized by The Somalis themselves as the father of Somali nationalism. Occasional brown spotting, otherwise a fine copy. Provenance: Forêt de Crécy (bookplate).
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