1893 The Ruined Cities Of Mashonaland by J.T. Bent Antique Exploration Book Maps

Description: 1893 The Ruined Cities Of Mashonaland by J.T. Bent Antique Exploration Book Maps The Ruined Cities Of Mashonaland - Being A Record Of Excavation In 1891By J. Theodore Bent Published by Longmans, Green And Co: London 1893 "James Theodore Bent (1852 – 1897) was an English explorer, archaeologist, and author. After an expedition in 1890 to Cilicia Trachea, where he obtained a valuable collection of inscriptions, Bent spent a year in South Africa, with the object, by investigation of some of the ruins in Mashonaland, of throwing light on the vexed question of their origin and on the early history of East Africa. Bent believed the Zimbabwe ruins had originally been built by the ancestors of the Shona people. To this end, in 1891, he made, along with his wife and the Glaswegian surveyor Robert McNair Wilson Swan (1858-1904), a colleague from Bent's time on Antiparos in 1883/4, the first detailed examination of the Great Zimbabwe. Bent described his work in The Ruined Cities of Mashonaland (1892)." Light wear, fading and some rub through to covers and spine as shown. Binding is somehwat relaxed with the front page cluster becoming loose with another cluster at page 307 being the same. Book slightly cocked forward. Pages typically clean with light age toning. No inscriptions. Includes frontis/folding map and all illustrations/plates/maps. Last couple of pages uncut. A nice copy in good condition overall. Please study photos to further understand condition. Size 20cm x 14.5cm x 3.5cm - 427 Pages + Publishers Advertising

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