With the Abyssinians in Somaliland … With a preface by Colonel A.N. Rochfort … and sixty-five illustrations from photographs taken by Major Jennings, and a map.

JENNINGS, James Willes and Christopher ADDISON.

Verlag: London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1905., 1905

Beschreibung

8vo, pp. xii, 265, [3]; with half title, 20 photographic double-sided plates, and 1 folding map; a little foxing, plates facing pp. 64 and 256 loose; overall good in original maroon cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, gilt vignette of camel to upper cover; light wear to extremities, some foxing to endpapers.First edition recounting the author's fact-finding mission to Eritrea and Ethiopia investigating the 'folk-lore, the characteristics, and customs of the Abyssinians'. The two observers were James Willes Jennings, a medical officer in the employ of the British army, and Christopher Addison, a lecturer on anatomy at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School. The immediate political context of their expedition was the activities of Mullah Mohammed Abdulla Ibn Hassan, nicknamed the 'Mad Mullah', the Somali religious and military leader of the Dervish movement. Initially directing his attention against the Abyssinians, his actions soon brought him into conflict with British authorities. By the autumn of 1903, the British were planning more extensive operations against Mullah Mohammed Hassan under the command of Lieutenant-General C.C. Egerton, with the goal of assisting the Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II. As part of this co-operation, and at the Emperor's request, the British sent Jennings and Addison to accompany Menelik's forces. The pair left Britain in October 1903, passing first to Aden and onwards to Djibouti and then Berbera. The subsequent account details the year they spent travelling alongside their Abyssinian companions, with detailed and fascinating accounts of their military movements, the local customs and culture, and the various hunting expeditions they engaged in along the way. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers T5058.251

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Titel: With the Abyssinians in Somaliland … With a ...

Verlag: London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1905.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1905

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: 1. Auflage