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1929pp. xiii, 281 + Plus frontis, numerous full page photographs and a large folding map. Title page printed in red and black. Bookplate. Inner hinge cracked. Decorative endpapers. Large 8vo. Original full red cloth binding, gold lettered. Third impression. AFRICA/2
1960385p. + Plus photographs. Chapter heading drawings. Inked ownership of Emilie Latimer. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, slight tear without loss. AFRICA/3 + AFRICA/2 Lacks DJ
1962pp. vii, 204. Charts. 8vo. Original full printed wraps. Spine and top edge faded. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! Coldwar/Economics 6
1989No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 172pp. An account of the depraved regime of Idi Amin in Uganda in the late 1970s where murder, torture, imprisonment and mutilation were standard methods used on anyone he wanted to by Amin who had been humiliated by the Israeli's Entebbe Raid. The story is told by Wycliffe Kato who had been Assistant Director General of Civil Aviation at the time of his arrest and imprisonment. He tells of his time in custody and how he managed to escape to Nairobi. Very scarce.
2004Sono ormai quasi vent'anni che il Nord Uganda è sconvolto da una feroce guerriglia. Imboscate, saccheggi, rapimenti e orribili menomazioni turbano in continuazione la vita dei villaggi nella savana. In questo drammatico scenario, nel 1984 p. Alfonso Poppi, è nominato parroco di Palabek nel distretto di Kitgum. Lì incontra Santo, uno dei più attivi catechisti della parrocchia. Le lettere qui raccolte sono una testimonianza della profonda amicizia che d'allora in poi legherà Santo al missionario italiano. Autori: Santo Okot, Alfonso Poppi.
in-12, V-302 pages, broche, couv. Bon état général. [NAN-1] Avec 16 gravures hors texte et une carte.
in-8°, 275 pp., tres nombreuses illustrations sepia in et hors-texte, carte couleurs hors-texte, broche, couv., jaquette illustree. Bel exemplaire (accrocs a la jaquette). [PH-2]
in-8°, 327 pages, illustrations, broche, couverture illustree. Bel exemplaire. [FRA-2]
in-12°, 99 pp., broche, couv.- RARE. Bel exemplaire. [NV-38]
1902In two volumes. Only vols. I. An attempt to give some description of the phisical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, languages and history of the territories under the British protection in east central Africa…. Disponiamo solo del primo volume. In 4to, cm. 20x25; pag. XIX + 470, con 42 illustrazioni a colori, 7 mappe, 253 illustrazioni in bianco e nero. Splendide sguardie illustrate a colori, bell'ex libris " Thomae N. Dick Lauder 1901", applicato al contropiatto anteriore. Legatura editoriale in tutta tela nera con impressione a rilievo e dorata sul piatto, titoli al dosrso, tagli dorati. Ottima la conservazione. Codice inv.1030654
1976100 pages. Features: The Rhynchostylis; Orchid Collecting in Uganda; African Epiphytic Orchids - An Annotated Guide to the Literature; Cool Orchids in a "Dungeon" - Fluorescent Light Orchid Culture; Angraecum, Neofinetia and Jumellea - Collector's Item; spathoglottis plicata; Indian Orchids - Note on Conservation; Exquisit Orchids from western Ghats (India) II- Rhynchostylis retusa; Honors Given to Noted Orchidist - Emma D. Menninger; Orchids Somehow Survive!; Rapid Vegetative Muliplication of Epidendrum O'brienianum in vitro and in the greehnouse. Light signs of handling. Book
1969Features include: intersterility as a taxonomic criterion; Coelogyne sparsa - Collector's item; Polystachya and the last traces of empire - orchids of Uganda; How to realize the supreme joy of raising orchids; growing orchids under controlled pH conditions; Disa uniflora and its hybrids - South Africa's Wonder Orchid. Crease to bottom corner of front cover. Small tear to top of back cover. Please note: a chunk has been cut from back cover. Book
1969Features: Masdevallia caloptera - Collector's item; Greenhouse and artificial light culture of orchids compared; pH measurements in the greenhouse; a revision of the genus Phalaenopsis Blume - III; the "Now" trend in Paphiopedilum; Eulophias in Uganda - the orchids of Uganda. Well-worn. Unmarked. No tears. Book
1957Features: I'll Climb Mount Everest Alone - the amazing story of Maurice Wilson (continued in a later issue); Death in a Bamboo Staff - Investigating snakes; An extraordinary affair at Upper Blackwood, Australia - mysteriously appearing stones and other objects; A Leopard came by Night - a fright in Uganda; Dogged by a Ghost Ship - aboard the whaler George Henry in Hudson Strait, between Labrador and Baffin Land in 1861; Ice Giving Way - An Anarctic Story; The Dead Walk Here - an incident in Algiers; He Built a Light for All Nations - no two lighthouses are the same; The Pawang's Triumph - an attempt to rid Malayan padi fields of the dreaded Beranang disease; Wild Boar at Bay - an unusual pig hunt; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Front cover partially loose. Book
1957Features: Smoke Jumpers of Silver City - forest firefighters of the United States Forest Service; Buffalo Bull - a gripping story set in the wild Acholiland province of Uganda; Contraband Cruise - sten gun pirates terrorize Tangier's 'free-traders' on the Mediterranean; Search for the Sahara Stallion - a quest for a fabulous strain of horses; The Gold-Rush Murders - the most shocking crime the Yukon had ever seen; The Fang Men of Malaya - The Hairy Giants/Ape Men of the Malayan Jungles; I Had a Man Friday - I Know an Island, Part IX - Antigua; Struggle for Survival - a continuation of 'Manhunt in Green Hell' - adventure in the jungle of French Guiana; and more. Average wear. Quality copy. Book
1998Articles: The Ports of Halifax and Saint John and the American Civil War; The Floating Factory - Dominant Designs and Technological Development of Twentieth-Century Whaling Factory Ships; A Lonely Ambassador - HMCS Uganda and the War in the Pacific; Sailor as Entrepreneurs in a Great Lakes Maritime Village; plus book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Book
1929Pages 169-252 plus 28 pages of ads. Features: Chink-Running - an account of the illegal smuggling of Chinese over the U.S. border from Canada via the Detroit River; Slippery Wiley's Luck - Mr. Wiley returns to the scene of his prior crime to con money from more victims in Australia; The Mysterious M'Zab - A description of a little-known country in the heart of the Sahara where, although the French are the nominal rulers, the people actually obey the edicts of a secret Government of their own - great photos; "Ning We Pulls the Strings" - A story of Colonel Mackenzie's inimitable Chinese detective; Our Gatta - a most amusing tale of a native regatta from West Africa; The Longest Canoe Voyage on Record, by John H.E. Nolan (Part 3 of 3) - with several photos; Murder Paul Jaworski is permitted to read advance copy of a magazine serial before being executed for his crime; Feather's Folly - a stirring sea yarn from Newfoundland; Seeing America on Thirteen Dollars - Carl N. Taylor describes his four year adventure which began when he was sixteen; At the Eleventh Hour - Racing A Dying Prospector in the Belgian Congo to British Territory for the sake of his life insurance policy; The Human Tiger - a man planning murder in Perth Australia sees his plan go wrong; A Break in Routine - a true story from a Commissioner of Police in Uganda. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Small tape reinforcements to each end of backstrip. A sound copy of this engaging vintage issue. Book
191893 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
198060 pages. Features: John Lennon cover photo; Winnipeg's Christmas Cheer Board; Gloomy view from Jim Gray of Canadian Hunter in Alberta's Oil Patch; Newspaper groups have become too large, too wealthy and too successful; Silo construction halts air travel to Chatham, Ontario's municipal airport - farmer Bob Walker does not agree to expropriation; Jeworski's general store near Regina does booming liquor business; UBC Professor Cyril Belshaw acquitted of murdering his wife; Jean Lesage - reluctant reformer; Poland marks time on a tightrope; El Salvador's Col. Adolfo Arnoldo Majano; Ballots and Bullets in Uganda; Ronald Reagan's new cabinet; Murder of Dr. Michael Halberstam by Bernard Welch; Oilmen keep up pressure on Ottawa's energy plan; The UTDC and its ALRT; Canada's prime interest rate hits 17%; The Legacy of John Lennon - photo-illlustrated article; Photo of figures skaters Baier and Eisler; Surgeons at Toronto General Hospital lose their viewing gallery in exchange for a new wing; Parapsychologists and the long road toward respectability; Pop Psychology is the newest gimmick on the AM Dial - with photo of Nadine Berger at work; Anne Murray in 'Save the Children' ad; Bruce Springsteen - photo-illustrated article; Book and movie reviews; and more. Neat 2"x1" clipping from bottom corner of front cover. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1898The second issue of this popular and long-lived publication. Pages 114-224. Features: Canadian Curiosities - article with great illustrations; The Marvelous Feats of Juggler Ram Pershad; Earth Pyramids in the Rosengarten Mountains; "For the Company's Credit" - story of an ocean-liner race; The Queerest Monarch in the World - Mwanga, King of Uganda (illustrated article); The Wreck of the "Rising Sun" - fire at sea; Picnics in Perak - article with photo of many Malay sultans aboard elephants crossing a river; The Telegraphist of Neufchateau - true WWI story; The Romance of the Mission Field - part 1; Across the Atlantic in an Open Boat - article with photo of Harvo and Samuelson in their rowboat "Fox"; The Mysterious Tramp; Tree-Blazing - how explorers in Australia's interior mark trees to guide those who may come after them; Bagging a Man-Eater - Major A. St. H. Gibbons kills a lion to protect villagers - article with photo; "The Miracle of Moses" - the Platte High Line Canal in Colorado - article with photos; In Search of an Orchid; The Fiery Ordeal of Fiji - walking on coals (illustrated article; In the Ocean Depths - illustrated recollections of ocean diver John Pearce. Front cover loose but present. Back cover missing. Last page is 224. It is uncertain if any pages were included after that. Few pencil markings. A worthy vintage copy. Book
1994Signed and dated by author, without inscription, upon title page. "The first documented and eyewitness account of Canada's only cruiser in World War Two and her part in the Pacific War." - subtitle. Generously illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos, illustrations and maps. Glossary, bibliography and index. xii, 282 pages. Includes list of crew members as of December 15, 1944. Map endpapers. Two custom bookmarks laid-in. Prior owner's armorial bookplate upon verso of front free endpaper otherwise unmarked with moderate wear and lean to spine. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. COOKE [3e] p.85. Book
198548 pages. Features: cover photo of the paddle steamer Waverley; Large photo of the Cunard passenger/cargo liner Media inside front cover; Full-page photo of the Uganda "looking somewhat the worse for wear'; On the Waterfront; Ships Pictorial; Cruise Ship Review; Govan Shipbuilders - Ian Johnston describes the history of one of the Clyde's last active shipyards; The Post-Dunkirk Evacuations - John de S. Winser describes the maritime evacuations from the ports of Western France and the Channel Islands in the summer of 1940; Paddle Steamer Nostalgia - photos; The ss Uganda Story - Part 2 - Schools and Discovery Cruises Ship 1968-1982; Where to See the Cruise Ships; Ferry Fleet Updates; Mersey farewell - photos of the last Isle of Man Steam Packet sailling from Liverpool to Douglas, 30 March, 1985; Nice photo of the Finnwhale inside back cover; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
198248 pages. Features: Cover photo of the Uganda arriving home from the Falklands; Great photo of Orcades inside front cover; On the Waterfront; Where to See the Cruise Ships; New Ship News; Ferry to the Falklands - Captain Chris Clarke, master of the Townsend Thoresen ro-ro ferry ``Europic Ferry``, describes the part played by his ship in the Falklands War; Enter the Uganda; The Luckiest Ship Afloat - Robin A. Walker reports on HMS ``Glamorgan`s`` role in the Falklands conflict and her lucky escape after being struck by an Exocet missile - the only ship in the RN Task Force to survive such an attack; Task Force Tankers; The Norwegian Veteran Ship Club - how Norwegian steam ship enthusiasts are achieving what other shiplovers dream of; Fleet List 1982 - Pennant Numbers of Warships of the Royal Navy and Vessels of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service - Part 1 - A to F; Ship Sales; Cruise Ship Pictorial; Under Sail; Letters, European Ferry Commentary; Nice photo of the HMS Loch Lomond in 1959 inside back cover; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
198248 pages. Features: Cover photo of B.I.'s Discover Cruise Ship Uganda; Great photo of Ceramic in 1972 inside front cover; Nice photo of German cruise ship Astor; On the Waterfront; Obituaries for Bob Roberts and Alan Villiers; Ships Pictorial; European Commentary; Where to see the Cruise Ships; Naval Review - The State of the Fleet; A Voyage of Discovery - report on the first reader cruise in the BI Discovery Cruise Ship "Uganda" to the northern capitals of Oslo, Copenhagen and Amsterdam; Shipping of the Clyde Ports - part 2 of a review of current activity; From Bay to Broadsword - part 2; Waverley's New Boiler - Ian Muir describes the background to the boiler transplant that has given the world's last sea-going paddle steamer a new lease on life; Limerick Steamship Co Fleet List; Ship Sales; Letters, Nice photo of the HMS Rotherham in 1946 inside back cover; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
198048 pages. Features: Cover photo of the British India cruise ship Uganda; Nice photo of RFA Grey Rover; Full-page photo of passenger-cargo liner Rangitata in 1937; On the Waterfront; New Ship News; European Commentary; 'Tribal' Class Frigates; 'Result' goes home - the career of the last of the merchant schooners; British India's Educational Cruise Ships; The Battle of Cape Matapan - Brenda Ralph Lewis relates the action in the decisive naval engagement with the Italian Fleet in March, 1941; Coasters Past and Present; Irish Greeks - four sister ships owned by the Irish Shipping Company of Dublin; Ships of the Seven Seas - Havjo, Liebenwalde, Matadi Palm, and La Cordillera; Letters; Ship Sales; Nice photo of the HMS Manxman in 1953. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book