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The land of the white helmet : lights and shadows across Africa

Title
  1. The land of the white helmet : lights and shadows across Africa / by Edgar Allen Forbes.
Published by
  1. New York ; Chicago ; Toronto ; London ; and Edinburgh : Fleming H. Revell Company [1910]
  2. ©1910
Author
  1. Forbes, Edgar Allen

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Additional authors
  1. Fleming H. Revell Company, publisher.
Description
  1. 356 pages, [32] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, portaits; 22 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
  1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Subject
  1. Africa > Colonization
  2. Africa > Social conditions
  3. Africa > Description and travel
Contents
  1. ch. 1. At the Sign of the Three Balls -- ch. 2. White man's Africa: how he got it -- ch. 3. The new pharaoh in Egypt -- ch. 4. France's African empire -- ch. 5. The Arab as a Frenchman -- ch. 6. Between the Sahara and the sea -- ch. 7. In the surf of the desert sea -- ch. 8. The white helmet in the Sahara -- ch. 9. The mix-up in Morocco -- ch. 10. Casablanca and Captain Cobb -- ch. 11. West Africa's half-way house -- ch. 12. The log of a deck-passenger -- ch. 13. The Negro as a Frenchman -- ch. 14. A hundred years of Sierra Leone -- ch. 15. The United States in Liberia -- ch. 16. The truth about Liberia -- ch. 17. Who's what in Liberia? -- ch. 18. The black man's last stand -- ch. 19. In the West African bush -- ch. 20. Hobnobbing with African kings -- ch. 21. Making King Wobeh's heart lie down -- ch. 22. The women of black man's Africa -- ch. 23. African guides I have cussed -- ch. 24. Hunting Africans with a camera -- ch. 25. Perspective and retrospective.
Call number
  1. Sc 916-F (Forbes, E. Land of the white helmet)
Note
  1. Maps on lining-papers.
  2. With a half-title.
  3. "Copyright, 1910, by Fleming H. Revell Company."--verso of title page.
  4. Publisher's office addresses listed on verso of title page.
Provenance (note)
  1. is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Author
  1. Forbes, Edgar Allen, author.
Title
  1. The land of the white helmet : lights and shadows across Africa / by Edgar Allen Forbes.
Publisher
  1. New York ; Chicago ; Toronto ; London ; and Edinburgh : Fleming H. Revell Company [1910]
Copyright date
  1. ©1910
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Provenance
  1. Copy in Sc 916-F (accession no. B526991) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
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  1. NYPL Digital Collections
  2. Full text available via HathiTrust (University of California copy)
Added author
  1. Fleming H. Revell Company, publisher.
  2. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
LCCN
  1. 10029135
Research call number
  1. Sc 916-F (Forbes, E. Land of the white helmet)
  2. BKD (Forbes, E. A. Land of the white helmet)
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