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The land of the white helmet : lights and shadows across Africa
- Title
- The land of the white helmet : lights and shadows across Africa / by Edgar Allen Forbes.
- Author
- Forbes, Edgar Allen
- Publication
- New York ; Chicago ; Toronto ; London ; and Edinburgh : Fleming H. Revell Company [1910]
- ©1910
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building M2 to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | BKD (Forbes, E. A. Land of the white helmet) | Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc 916-F (Forbes, E. Land of the white helmet) | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Fleming H. Revell Company, publisher.
- Description
- 356 pages, [32] leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, portaits; 22 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Subjects
- Note
- Maps on lining-papers.
- With a half-title.
- "Copyright, 1910, by Fleming H. Revell Company."--verso of title page.
- Publisher's office addresses listed on verso of title page.
- Provenance (note)
- is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
- Contents
- ch. 1. At the Sign of the Three Balls -- ch. 2. White man's Africa: how he got it -- ch. 3. The new pharaoh in Egypt -- ch. 4. France's African empire -- ch. 5. The Arab as a Frenchman -- ch. 6. Between the Sahara and the sea -- ch. 7. In the surf of the desert sea -- ch. 8. The white helmet in the Sahara -- ch. 9. The mix-up in Morocco -- ch. 10. Casablanca and Captain Cobb -- ch. 11. West Africa's half-way house -- ch. 12. The log of a deck-passenger -- ch. 13. The Negro as a Frenchman -- ch. 14. A hundred years of Sierra Leone -- ch. 15. The United States in Liberia -- ch. 16. The truth about Liberia -- ch. 17. Who's what in Liberia? -- ch. 18. The black man's last stand -- ch. 19. In the West African bush -- ch. 20. Hobnobbing with African kings -- ch. 21. Making King Wobeh's heart lie down -- ch. 22. The women of black man's Africa -- ch. 23. African guides I have cussed -- ch. 24. Hunting Africans with a camera -- ch. 25. Perspective and retrospective.
- Call Number
- Sc 916-F (Forbes, E. Land of the white helmet)
- LCCN
- 10029135
- OCLC
- 907485
- Author
- Forbes, Edgar Allen, author.
- Title
- The land of the white helmet : lights and shadows across Africa / by Edgar Allen Forbes.
- Publisher
- New York ; Chicago ; Toronto ; London ; and Edinburgh : Fleming H. Revell Company [1910]
- Copyright Date
- ©1910
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Provenance
- Copy in Sc 916-F (accession no. B526991) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Fleming H. Revell Company, publisher.Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
- Research Call Number
- Sc 916-F (Forbes, E. Land of the white helmet)BKD (Forbes, E. A. Land of the white helmet)