Lot 195: Six Books on Africa and For Rushdie--Essays by Arab and Muslim Writers in Defense of Free Speech

Six Books on Africa and For Rushdie--Essays by Arab and Muslim Writers in Defense of Free Speech, A) The Sources of the Nile: Explorers' Maps A.D. 1856-1891 (London: Royal Geographical Society, 1964). R.G.S. Reproductions of Early Maps VIII. B) Judith Listowel, The Other Livingstone (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1974). First American edition. C) George Martelli, Livingstone's River: A History of the Zambezi Expedition 1858-1864 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969). First American edition. D) Richard Hall, Stanley: An Adventurer Explored (London: Collins, 1974). First edition. E) Tim Jeal, Livingstone (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973). First American edition. F) Jeremy Murray-Brown, Faith and the Flag: The Opening of Africa (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977). First edition. G) SIGNED BY RUSHDIE, 1994 first edition of the English translation of the 1993 French edition. George Braziller: New York, 1994. Translations by Kenneth Whitehead and Kevin Anderson. A fascinating and still timely compendium of essays regarding free speech in the Islamic World, compiled in response to the fatwa issued against Rushdie after the 1990 publication of his novel "The Satanic Verses". According to Rushdie, "It is a great delight to find in this volume...the most gifted, the most learned, the most important voices of the Muslim and Arab world, gathered together to subject my work and the furor surrounding it to so brilliant, so many sided, so judicious an examination."

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