White African by Leakey, L S B - 1937

Schenkman Publishinfg, 1966. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Cambridge, MA: Schenkman, 1966. hardcover. Book: Good/DJ: Good. 8vo.. 316 pp. 5 3/4 x 8 7/8. Brown cloth covered boards, stamped in black on spine. Light foxing on endpapers. Glossy light green and white dj, edgeworn.

Cambridge MA: Schenkman Publishing, 1966. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover in a lightly faded dust jacket. Written in 1936, long before his fame as a archeologist and anthropologist. He tells the story of his life as an African in White Africa from the time he left his family in search of a new life until he returned as a successful scientist. Leakey vividly describes his experiences as a hunter, gatherer, and farmer, and his encounters with the natural world and the people he met there. He also describes the challenges he and his fellow Africans faced in trying to establish themselves as a minority community in a hostile environment. Clean copy. Record # 381138

Cambridge:: Schenkman Publishing Company,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. With a foreword by Kirtley F. Mather and a new preface by the author. First edition thus. Very good in a very good (small chip at the base of the spine), price clipped dust jacket. .

Schenken Publishing Company, Inc, 1966. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

USA: Schenkman. Good. Hardcover. 1966. 316 pages. ex library .

Cambridge, Mass: Schenkman Publishing, 1966. Foreword by Kirtley F Mather. New Preface by the author. 316pp. Prev owner's name by the upper edge of the title page has been crossed out with black marker. Illustrated light card cover. The book was written in 1936 and tells about the first 30 years of Dr Leakey's life. He was born in Kenya where, at 13, he was formally initiated as a Kikuyu. He says that his early experience with them contributed to his later success as a fossil hunter. The book ends with the close of his Third East African Archaeological Expedition.. Soft Cover. Very Good. Trade Paperback.

New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1973. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Rare book. Collectible. First published in 1937, this is the early autobiography of a wholly original man, L.S.B. Leakey, whose anthropological researches in Olduvai Gorge and elsewhere have revolutionized our knowledge of our hominid ancestors. Born in Kenya of missionary parents, Leakey grew up among the Kikuyu and became, as one of their chiefs has put it, "the black man with a white face." Like others of his tribe, he was taught the skills of patient observation in the wild, but unlike them, he was given a British education. The combination of academic and tribal skills gave him a peerless background for archeological and anthropological researches that he undertook when he returned to his homeland. This autobiography covers his first thirty years, the years of growing up on the mission station and among the Kikuyu, the years of British schooling and… Read More

Hodder and Stoughton Limited , 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Name and information of the previous owner. Small stamp mark. Complete with all Plates. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 320 pages. Frontispiece. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Schenkman Publishing Company, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. A Near Fine edition that has some light soiling to the boards in a Very Good+ dust-jacket that has rubbing to the surfaces and other wear to the trim ; Leakey, Louis S. B. (1913-1984) tells the story of his life as an African in White Africa from the time he left his family in search of a new life until he returned as a successful scientist. Leakey vividly describes his experiences as a hunter, gatherer, and farmer, and his encounters with the natural world and the people he met there. He also describes the challenges he and his fellow Africans faced in trying to establish themselves as a minority community in a hostile environment. White African is a unique and compelling account of one man's fight for survival and self-realization in a hostile world.; 8vo; 316 pages .