| Notes: Second edition. No jacket. Spine faded, one-inch tear to fold-out map, page ridges and some pages lightly foxed. 1903 Hard Cover. xxxiv, 663 pp. Includes 44 illustrations from photographs by the author and fold-out sketch map of South Africa to illustrate journeys of F. Coillard. An eye-witness account of the events which shook South-Central Africa before the advent of Colonial rule. It presents an account of the Lozi, a record of Coillard's journeys and his work in establishing the Paris evangelical mission in Barotseland. François Coillard (17 July 1834 in Asnières-les-Bourges, Cher, France – 27 May 1904 in Lealui, Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia) was a French missionary who worked for the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society in southern Africa. |