Liberia / by Sir Harry Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., D.Sc., gold medallist Royal Geographical, Royal Scottish Geographical, and Zoological Societies, author of "The Uganda Protectorate," "History of the Colonisation of Africa," et cetera ; with an appendix on the flora of Liberia, by Dr. Otto Stapf, F.L.S., principal assistant, Kew Herbarium ; 28 coloured illustrations by Sir Harry Johnston, 24 botanical drawings by Miss Matilda Smith, 402 black and white illustrations from the author's drawings and from photographs by the author and others, 22 maps by Mr. J.W. Addison, Capt. H.D. Pearson, R.E., Lieut. E.W. Cox, R.E., and the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnston, Harry, 1858-1927, author.

Contributor:

Stapf, O. (Otto), 1857-1933, contributor.

Series:

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Botany.

Natural history.

Liberia.

Natural history--Liberia.

Botany--Liberia.

Vai language.

Africa, West--Languages.

Africa, West.

West Africa.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 volumes) : illustrations, maps, portraits.

Place of Publication:

London : Hutchinson and Company, 1906.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

I. Liberia. Ancient history. Normans and Genoese. Portuguese. Pepper and gold. The Guinea trade in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A Dutch account of Liberia in the seventeenth century. The slave trade. The founding of Liberia. The last phase of the slave trade. Governors of Liberia. Independence. President Roberts. Frontier questions. The loan and its consequences. Recent history. The Americo-Liberians. Commerce. Geography of Liberia. Climate and rainfall. Geology and minerals.

II. Flora of Liberia. Fauna. Anthropology. Folklore. Languages: The languages of Liberia. Appendix IX: The Vai syllabarium or alphabet. Vocabularies of Liberian and other West African languages. Index.

Notes:

Paged continuously; volume 1: xxviii, 519, [1] pages; volume 2: xvi, 521-1183 pages.

End-papers illustrated in colors.

Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.

Includes bibliographical references (volume 1, xiii-xvii).

28 coloured illustrations by Sir Harry Johnston, 24 botanical drawings by Miss Matilda Smith, 402 black and white illustrations from the author's drawings and from photographs by the author and others, 22 maps by Mr. J.W. Addison [and others].

OCLC:

586073968

Access Restriction:

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