SIERRA LEONE: A MODERN PORTRAIT (THE CORONA LIBRARY)
by Roy Lewis
Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1st. 1954
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Sierra Leone is a little-known land whose strange and romantic history enered a new phase when at the end of the eighteenth century British philanthropists chose it as a settlement for freed and destitute slaves. its story since then has turned upon the attempt, under the leadership of governors and missionaries, for whom the place was literally the White Man's Grave, to make a new nation out of the disparate elements of Negro ex-soldiers, Africans liberated from slave ships by the Royal Navy, and the tribesmen of the hinterland. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour frontis and b/w photos. ix and 263 pages including index. Fold-out map to rear.
Boards mottled and gilt to spine has faded. Text block browned. Tiny piece of surface paper loss to front endpaper. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is browned, edge-worn, and has three white spots to spine which is faded to grey.
Stock no. 1830910
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (FOREIGN)
- AFRICA
- SIERRA LEONE
- SLAVERY
