The dawn of African history
1961, First Edition. London : Oxford University Press. Fine cloth copy in very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #433126
Physical description; 103 pages illustrations 21 cm. Contents; First light / Sir Mortimer Wheeler -- The valley of the Nile / A.J. Arkell -- Carthage, Greece and Rome / A.A. Kwapong -- The kingdom of Axum / G.W.B. Huntingford -- The invading crescent / Bernard Lewis -- Kingdoms of the western Sudan / Thomas Hodgkin -- The land of Zanj / Gervase Mathew -- The riddle of Zimbabwe / Roland Oliver -- Peoples and kigdoms of the central Sudan / D.H. Jones -- States of the Guinea forest / J.D. Fage -- The old kingdom of Congo / J. Vansina -- South of the Limpopo / W.M. Macmillan -- The African achievement / Roland Oliver. Subjects; Africa. Africa History. African History. Africa Antiquities. History.
Price: €30.00