Cameroon's Tycoon

Cameroon's TycoonMax Esser was an adventurous young merchant banker, a Rhinelander, who became the first managing director of the largest German plantation company in Cameroon. This volume gives a vivid account of the antecedents and early stages as experienced and described by Esser. In 1896 he ventured, with the explorer Zintgraff, into the hinterland to seek the agreement of Zintgraff's old ally, the ruler of Bali, for the provision of laborers for his projected

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written by anthropologists and sociologists with detailed first-hand knowledge of the rural areas concerned

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This book examines the tensions between actual journeys and their resultant texts by asking questions about the meaning of ‘movement’ and what counts as ‘travel writing’ in an age of virtual journeying and enforced immobility

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