George Grenfell and the Congo; a history and description of the Congo Independent State and adjoining districts of Congoland, together with some account of the native peoples and their languages, the fauna and flora; and similar notes on the Cameroons and the island of Fernando Pô, the whole founded on the diaries and researches of the late Rev. George Grenfell, B.M.S., F.R.G.S.; and on the records of the British Baptist Missionary Society; and on additional information contributed by the author, by the Rev. Lawson Forfeitt, Mr. Emil Torday, and others / by Sir Harry Johnston ... With 496 illustrations from photographs by the Revs. George Grenfell and William Forfeitt ... and others and from drawings by the author, and 14 maps by the late Rev. George Grenfell, and also by J.W. Addison ... the last-named being based mainly on Grenfell's surveys and on additional material contributed by Mr. E. Torday, the author, Mons. A.J. Wauters, the publications of the Congo state, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Baptist Missionary Society ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnston, Harry, 1858-1927.

Contributor:

Forfeitt, Lawson.

Torday, Emil, 1875-1931.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grenfell, George, 1849-1906.

Grenfell, George.

Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Congo (Democratic Republic).

Ethnology--Congo (Democratic Republic).

Ethnology.

Ethnology--Africa, Central.

Central Africa.

Africa, Central.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : frontispieces, illustrations, plates, portraits, maps (part folded) facsimiles ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Hutchinson & Co., 1908.

Notes:

Paged continuously; v. 1: xxiii, 496 p.; v. 2: 2 p. l., [vii]-xx, [497]-990 p., 1 l.

OCLC:

2394152