The Land Of The False Prophet
Language: English
Published by The Century Company, NY, 1885
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Legacy Books II, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.Legacy Books II
AbeBooks seller since January 25, 2005
Condition: Used - Very good
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20pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 24 drawings, including a full-page map with an inset of Khartoum, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume XXIX, No. 5, March, 1885. From the editor's note, "The reader will be interested in knowing that General Colston writes out of his knowledge of the Soudan gained while he was an officer on the general staff of the Egyptian army, in the service of which he commanded two exeditions of exploration in the Sudan, traveling on all the principal caravan routes, and spending two years int he towns and among the tribes which are frequently mentioned in connection with El Mahdi's rebellion." Illustrations include driving a horse sleigh in the streets of Montreal, curling, tobogganing at night, an old Indian making snow shoes, a skating carnival, on a toboggan hill, the head of a slide, a race on snow shoes, supper at the club house, snow shoeing by torchlight, etc. Housed in protctive mylar report cover.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Land Of The False Prophet
- Author
- Colston, R. E.
- Publisher
- The Century Company, NY
- Publication year
- 1885
- Condition
- VG
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- J. D. Woodward, F. J. Meeker, Francis C. Jones, Harry Fenn, L. C. Vogt, W. Taber, J. R. Wiles, and C. J. Taylor
- Dimensions
- 8vo
Legacy Books II
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