Souvenirs of Military Life in Algeria

Castellane, Louis Charles Pierre

Remington, 1886

2 volume set. Near fine. Bound in publisher's textured brown cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages.  [vi], 244 + [vi], 260, 20 (ads) pp., color folding map. Hebert M. Federham, Quincy, Mass. book plate on end page.  Margaret Josephine Lovett's translation of Souvenirs de la vie militaire en Afrique.   Chapters include: The Province of Algiers, Zouaves and Spahis, The Darha, Khamis of the Beni-Ouraghs, A Winter Campaign, The Sahara and the Great Desert, The Province of Oran, and Expedition to Kabylia.  From prelims, Castellane "enlisted as a simple private in a Zouave regiment, and won each stripe at the point of the bayonet, earning his epaulettes as a subaltern in the field whilst fighting under Colonel MacMahon. Some graphic accounts are given of the campaigns in which he took part and of the manners and customs of the troops out there."