MY AFRICAN JOURNEY

First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Publisher's original red cloth, with titles in gilt to the spine and printed in black to the upper board, with black blue and grey illustration to the upper board. Deckled edges. With a tissue-guarded black and white photographic portrait frontispiece and 61 black and white photographic plates and 3 line-drawn maps, throughout the text. A very good copy, the binding square and firm. The cloth, with a few light spots to the upper board, a little mottling to the lower board and some mild fading to the spine is a little rubbed to the spine tips and edges. The contents, with an ownership inscription of W. H. Hadow in black ink to the front pastedown, a later, previous owner's small paper address label to the front endpaper, and mild offsetting and spotting to the endpapers, are otherwise clean throughout. A few of the plates are a little frayed at the outer blank margin, and have been re-inserted. Publisher's catalogue to the rear.

Sir William H. Hadow (1859-1937), was appointed Dean of Worcester College, Oxford, in 1889 and went on to become a leading British educational reformer in the 1920s and 1930s. His series of reports on education, which later became known as the 'Hadow Reports' called for the re-organisation of primary education and the creation of secondary schools for children over the age of 11. A travelogue of Sir Winston Churchill's four-month trip through Africa from France to attend the French Army manoeuvres. Written while Churchill served as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, the book was originally published serialized in 'The Strand' magazine between March and November 1908. (Woods, A12).