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Tucker, Alfred R.,
Eighteen Years in Uganda and East Africa.
Publisher: Edward Arnold, London;
Date of Publication: 1908
Stock Code: 9182
FIRST EDITION, octavo. 2 volumes (pp. xvi, 395, [1]; x, 388, and booksellers’ catalogue pp. 16) With sixty black and white and colour full-page plates and a coloured folding map. Original midnight blue cloth with gilt ornaments, cover titles, spine titles, and fillets to spine. Rubbed at spine hinges and corners, with some mild scattered foxing, mainly to prelims and fore-edges. Otherwise clean, bright, tight, square.

This engaging chronological narrative covers the 18 years Tucker spent as Bishop of Uganda between 1874 and 1892, and provides an insight into the political, cultural, and environmental landscape of late nineteenth century Uganda. Beautifully illustrated with sixty of Tucker's finely observed sketches and paintings. £200.00