brian fraser macdona (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good++. FIRST edition, first printing. Near fine in near fine DJ. Small tear with no paper loss on top back DJ. Unmarked.

1st - Presentation Copy. Fine cloth copy in very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 235 p. : ill ; 23 cm. Subjects; Italo-Ethiopian War, 1895-1896 ; Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945 Ethiopia. Ethiopia Description and travel. Ethiopia Colonization. 3 Kg.

1st - Presentation Copy. Fine cloth copy in very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 235 p. : ill ; 23 cm. Subjects; Italo-Ethiopian War, 1895-1896 ; Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945 Ethiopia. Ethiopia Description and travel. Ethiopia Colonization. 1 Kg.

Approximately 325 typed pages, plus approx. 200 illustrations, including original photographs, clippings, postcards, hand-drawn maps, etc. [With:] Macdona, B. F. Ethiopia in Wartime: 1941-1942. Edited by Frederic J. Sharf. (Hollywood, CA: Tsehai, 2004). Later half black morocco and cloth covered boards. An extraordinary first-hand look at war-time East Africa, by a fantastic writer. Macdona began working for Barclays in 1917, beginning his career as a shorthand typist. Slowly working his way up the ladder, by 1929 he had transferred to East Africa, becoming the Superintendent of all East African branches in 1937, overseeing nearly 20 bank branches spread out over nearly 680,000 square miles. During the war, Macdona became one of three bankers to oversee finances of the Occupied Enemy Territory Administration, as well as managing the account of the U.S. Finance Office. He would return to London after the war, eventually becoming General Manager and serving on the board of Barclays (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas). Provenance: After his death, these two volumes were inherited by Macdona's sister and upon her death they were sold by a British bookseller to Nigel Webb, who in turn sold them to African collector Humphrey Winterton, whose collection was sold by Maggs Brothers in 2003, with the present volumes being sold to Frederic Sharf. The following year, Sharf published two of the memoirs within his Ethiopia in Wartime (a copy of which accompanies the typescripts). Copies of the typescripts are located in the Rhodes Library, Oxford University. "Local Leave" - June to July 1936 36pp typescript, plus 46 photographs of the trip (each 2 3/8 x 3 1/2 inches or the reverse). A charming narrative of a road trip in East and Central Africa by a senior international banker at Barclays. Starting in Kampala, in Uganda, just north of Lake Victoria, Macdona and his wife set out on a summer holiday. They travel by car southwest to Masaka, Kabale, and Lake Bunyoni. Along the way, they stop at various hotels for meals and lodging, with Macdona giving wonderfully detailed descriptions of the geography, wildlife and natives encountered. They take the mountain road to Lake Kivu, towards the Congo border, "the finest [views] that we have seen inland in Africa." Near disaster is averted when their car breaks down on an evening drive through Parc National Albert, and Macdona, his wife and driver are forced to spend the night on the roadside after hours of attempting a fix: "The queer echoes raised from those forest clad mountain sides as we hammered out the dents in the sump; the glowing crater of Nyamalagira some ten miles away; the tremendous bush all around; the thought, mentioned by none of us but nevertheless present in all our minds, that any moment some dark shape or glowing pair of eyes might appear; the bitter cold; the candles burning round the car and the first pale glow on the trees when the lights of our relief car appeared -- all of these will be remembered." After repairing the car, they proceed on safari through the Parc National Albert, seeing an impala, gazelle, waterbuck, hippo, elephant (with a description of being within 100 feet of a bull snapping off the upper half of a tree in order to feed smaller elephants), and lion: "After a minute Leo peered round one side of the bush in a benevolent manner reminding one of an old gentleman glancing up over his spectacles. Then he had a look round the other sides and apparently feeling that he was being compromised in an undignified position he withdrew in a lordly manner. To get good pictures we wanted him broadside and so endeavoured to interest him by making what we hoped were appropriate lion-enticing noises . Finally, in response to a call of puss his lordship stopped and turned round to see what impertinent street urchin was cheeking him." Three photographs of the lion encounter follow. From there, the vacationers travel from Butembo toward Beni and the Ituri forest, with description.