Buy this book on-line Hughes, Rev W : Dark Africa and the Way Out or A Scheme for Civilizing and Evangelizing the Dark ContinentLondon: Sampson Low Marston, 1892
Hardback, first edition, 19 x 13 cm. (7½ x 5), poor condition, no dust-jacket, publisher's original blue clothboards with illustrated black and gilt blocking to front and spine, boards lightly worn and colours faded (blue and gilt still bright), 156pages plus 30+ pages of adverts., from title page to page 17, and 65 - 80, are loose but all pages are present, early pages are browned, b/w photo illustrations, b/w map-----------------The author spent many years as a missionary in central Africa before deciding it would be better for Africans to come to North Wales to be trained as missionaries. The scheme seems to have collapsed due to a lack of cooperation by the Belgian authorities who did not want any educated Africans in the Congo. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Hughes, Rev W : Dark Africa and the Way Out or A Scheme for Civilizing and Evangelizing the Dark Continent. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including fine bindings, atlases, first editions, livres illustrées and rare books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |