1983, The Central African Planter, Society of Malawi, HBw/dj, 1895 FACSIMILE LIM

Description: First Published in 1895, this is a 1983 Facsimile by the Society of Malawi, LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES, THIS IS NUMBER 793. The book is in NEAR FINE CONDITION, with very light dust jacket edge wear, boards with no wear, 250 clean and solidly bound pages. The only wear issue is that this was a gift and there is a gift inscription neatly in ink on ffep - see listing photo. Here is a description found online on the original journals, published briefly in 1895/96: "A. Schwarz, writing in the 'Society of Malawi Journal' (vol.36, number 2, 1983, pp.10-11), noted that the "contents of the paper cover a far wider variety of subjects than would appear from the title. There of course many articles on crops, at a time when there was much thought and experimentation, and no real idea of what was suitable and would emerge as a major source of revenue for the country. Coffee cultivation was thought to qualify for that, and there were number of articles on the crop .... But there is something for everybody ... such as articles or letters to the Editor on wages and labour problems, tax complaints, arguments about the Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture, notes on the climate and rainfall data, health and hospitals, transport problems, banking and the issue of notes, and so on. Then there are the advertisements, quite fascinating ones, for instance the sale of a grand piano, for £40 - at a time when it must have come up by headload from the Lower River. It is in fact a wonderful chronicle of its day." Robert Spence Hynde - an important European figure in the early colonial history of Central Africa, originally came to Central Africa in 1888 (aged 19) as a Church of Scotland lay missionary and teacher, but soon switched to being a planter. In 1893, with his brother-in-law. R.R. Stark, he started with tobacco and coffee on his estate at Somgani, near Zomba. In 1901 he became manager of Blantyre and East Africa Ltd., a company registered in Scotland, and created through the amalgamation of the estates of the Buchanan Brothers and J.W. Moir with Hynde's own land. Blantyre and East Africa Ltd was one of four large estate-owning companies in colonial Nyasaland, and concentrated on tea and tobacco. In addition to his newspaper interests, Hynde was also a member of Blantyre Town Council for more than 20 years, and the first operator of a weekly cinema in Blantyre." BB7

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