Africa's dome of mystery. Comprising the first descriptive history of the Wachagga people of Kilimanjaro, their evangelization, and a girl's pioneer climb to the crater of their 19,000 ft. snow shrine . Preface by Rear-Admiral Sir H.H. Stileman .

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8vo, pp. 215; with coloured frontispiece, 35 plates, and 1 folding map; a little foxing at fore-edge; very good in original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper cover lettered in bronze, original pictorial dust jacket; a little wear to extremities, some tears, small areas of loss and spotting to dust jacket.First edition. 'In Part II the authoress gives from her own experience and observation a vivid description of mountains and plains of tropical foliage and waterless, barren scrub land which is most telling, culminating in her account of the ascent to the 19,000 ft. crater of Kibo. The scene on the lip of the cauldron is dramatic, when one of her Chagga porters on viewing the mighty spectacle for the first time, broke the silence with: "This is the abode of God: there is no house is all the world clean except this one."' (p. 8).Neate S175. N° de ref. del artículo T5058.459

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