Item #41235 Narrative of a journey to the Zoolu country, in South Africa...undertaken in 1835. Allen Gardiner.
Narrative of a journey to the Zoolu country, in South Africa...undertaken in 1835
Narrative of a journey to the Zoolu country, in South Africa...undertaken in 1835

Narrative of a journey to the Zoolu country, in South Africa...undertaken in 1835

London: William Crofts, 1836. First edition, 8vo, pp. iv, 412; hand-colored lithograph frontispiece, 25 lithograph plates (1 hand-colored), 2 folding maps; mild dampstain enters text at top and bottom, original green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, the whole rebacked and recased, with the original spine laid down; a good, sound copy. On this, his first journey as a missionary, Gardiner (1794-1851) established the first missionary station at Port Natal. "From 1834 to 1838 he was engaged in earnest endeavours to establish christian churches in Zululand, but political events and native wars combined to prevent any permanent success" (DNB). Mendelssohn I, p. 587; Abbey, Travel, 332. Item #41235

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