The Year Book and Guide to East Africa... 1959 Edition...

Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company / Robert Hale Ltd., London, 1959. Printed in England by Waterlow & Sons Limited. Hard Cover. (including Eritrea, Somaliland, Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, Zanzibar, Portuguese East Africa, the Congo, Mauritius, Madagascar, Reunion, Seychelles, etc., etc.) with Atlas, Folding Map, Town Plans and Route Maps. Edited Annually by A. Gordon-Brown, F.R.G.S. for the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Limited (Incorporated in England). 4, St. Mary Axe, London, E.C.3. 1959 Edition (Formerly Incorporated in the South and East African Year Book and Guide). 38 (adverts.), xxxiv (indexes & lists), 342 (guide), 16 (color maps), 39-113 (adverts.) p. incl. rear endpaper, plates (photos); 18.5 cm.; marker ribbon. The great British colonial machine in all its glory. Advertisers include exchange brokers, shipping lines, a goldsmith, South African Wine Farmers Association, Webb's Indian Tonic, trading companies, Punch & other publications for the colonial exile, a list of novels about Africa, marine outfitters, Benguela Railway, Rhodesia Railways, Companhia Colonial de Navegação, Nyasaland Railways, Moçambique Safaris, The Zanzibar Voice, Miwani Sugar Mills, CBV Air Charter, hotels. Color maps show Tanganyika, Kenya Protectorate & Colony, Uganda & territory, Kenya Colony & Lake Victoria, Abyssinia & the Sudan, Mozambique, Nyasaland. Red cloth stamped in gold; ex-library with spine mark, lacks first advertising page (1-2, first count); minor wear; good+. 38107.