ZANZIBAR: 
THE ISLAND METROPOLIS 
OF EASTERN AFRICA 
BY 
Major FRANCIS B. PEARCE, C.M.G. 
(British Resident in Zanzibar) 
With a Map and 32 pages of Illustrations 
(SECOND IMPRESSION) 
Super Royal 8vo, cloth. BOs. net. 
This important work deals with the past and 
present history of Zanzibar. From the earliest 
times this island, owing to its commanding 
Position off the coast of Africa, controlled the 
great trade-routes which traversed the Continent 
from the Indian to the Atlantic Oceans, and it 
has remained to the present day the Metropolis 
of the East African Region. It has known many 
over-lords, and the author, who is His Majesty’s 
Representative in Zanzibar, traces the story of 
this romantic island-kingdom down the centuries, 
The close association of this African island with 
ancient and medizval Arabia is demonstrated, 
and the advent of the old Persian colonists to its 
shores explained. Coming to later times, such 
names as Vasco da Gama and Sir James Lancaster, 
that famous Elizabethan sea-captain, are met with ; 
until, leaving beaten tracks, the author introduces 
the reader to the hoary kingdom of Oman, whence 
came those princes of the Arabian desert who 
subdued to their sway the rich spice-island of 
Zanzibar and the adjacent territories of Central 
Africa. Modern Zanzibar is fully dealt with, and 
the enlightened Prince who occupies the throne 
of Zanzibar to-day is introduced to the reader in 
a personal interview. The latter portion of the 
work is devoted to descriptions of the ruined 
Arab and Persian stone-built towns—the very 
names of which are now forgotten—which, until 
cleared by the author, lay mouldering in the forests 
of Zanzibar and Pemba. The text is elucidated by 
a series of beautiful photographs and by specially 
prepared maps. ; 
This volume must be regarded as the standard 
work on the Sultanate of Zanzibar. 
T. FISHER UNWIN LTD., LONDON 
