The Ogowe Band; A Narrative of African Travel

E-194: Reading & Company. Very Good. 1890. Second Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Reading and Co, Philadelphia, PA. 1890. Xv, 278 pgs. Frontispiece. Illustrated throughout. Second Edition. Bound in mustard yellow cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board and decorated in black and gilt on upper cover and spine including a majestic lion s head gilt on the cover Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Reading served as a missionary to Gaboon, and later as a commercial agent for the United States. He recounts his party's journey from Philadelphia, which took them through Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Gold Coast. Includes some discussion of the American Colonization Society's efforts in Liberia; slaveholding in Africa; commerce along the coast and rivers; prospects for a railroad and commercial development of the interior.. "All the scenes and incidents portrayed in this book are true, the only fiction consisting in making these the experiences of the Ogowe Band instead of the author. All the descriptions of scenery were copied from diaries written upon the spot, and are as accurate as it is possible to make them" E-194; 278 pages .