SIBREE, James.
The great African island. Chapters on Madagascar. A popular account of recent researches in the physical geography, geology, and exploration of the country, and its natural history and botany; and in the origin and divisions, customs and language, superstitions, folk-lore, and religious beliefs and practices of the different tribes ...
London, Trübner & Co., 1880.
8vo, pp. xii, 372; with frontispiece, 3 plates, and 2 folding maps (the first with closed tear); slightly browned, chips to fore-edges of free endpapers; overall very good in original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt palm tree to upper cover; spine repaired at head, some wear to extremities.
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The great African island. Chapters on Madagascar. A popular account of recent researches in the physical geography, geology, and exploration of the country, and its natural history and botany; and in the origin and divisions, customs and language, superstitions, folk-lore, and religious beliefs and practices of the different tribes ...
First edition, by the missionary and architect James Sibree (1836-1929). ‘In writing the following pages my object has been to supply information of a more general character than is given in most previous works; and especially to arrange in a systematic form numerous interesting facts which have only recently come to light. During the last nine or ten years many journeys have been made in previously little known, or entirely unknown, parts of Madagascar, so that our knowledge of the various tribes inhabiting the island is greatly increased; and every year continual accessions are being made to our information as to the physical geography and geology of the country, its luxuriant flora, [and] its remarkable and exceptional fauna’ (Preface).
