Swedish ventures in Cameroon, 1833-1923
Subtitle: trade and travel, people and politics : the memoir of Knut Knutson
By: Knutson ; edited and with an introduction by Shirley Ardener.
Contributors: Ardener, Shirley.
Series: Cameroon studies -- v.4
Publisher: Berghahn
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Knutson, Knut.; Swedes -- Cameroon -- Biography.; Cameroon -- History.; Cameroon -- Social life and customs.
Genres: Biography.
Description: In the 1880s two Swedes were living on the upper slopes of the Cameroon Mountain. One of them, Knutson, wrote a long memoir of his time in Cameroon (1883-1895). It gives fascinating insights into everyday life in pre-colonial Cameroon.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.