Narrative Of A Journey To The Zoolu Country, In South Africa

Gardiner, Allen Francis

William Crofts, 1836

Bound in contemporary green cloth.  Professionally rebacked.  Good binding and cover. 22 cm. iv, 412 pp., errata slip bound-in at front, with two folding maps at rear.  26 lithographic plates, two hand-colored.  Internally generally clean and unmarked, with a few minor spots to plates. Early signature of Fr. Wahlgren, 1846 on fep. Gardiner founded the first missionary station at Port Natal. "From 1834 to 1838 he was engaged in earnest endeavors to establish christian churches in Zululand, but political events and native wars combined to prevent any permanent success" (DNB).  Mendelssohn South African Bibliography, vol. 1, pp. 587/588.Abbey Travel 332.  Travels to Zulu land.