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Swahili tales

as told by natives of Zanzibar

Also known as Swahili Tales, As Told by Natives of Zanzibar, With an English Translation

by Edward bp Steere, Edward Steere & Alice Werner

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: English, SWA
  • Content type: Primary source
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Swahili and English on opposite pages CAM Rights : National Library of Scotland holds full rights in this digital resource and agrees to license the resource under the Creative Commons License: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 UK: Scotland

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, online-books-page, openlibrary, and openlibrary-historical matched “Folk literature”, “Folklore”, and “Tales”. Retained metadata contains “Tales” in the title, “Tales” in the alternative title, “Folk literature” in the subject metadata, and 3 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Tales”· via Internet Archive
    • “Folklore”· via The Online Books Page
    • “Tales”· via The Online Books Page
    • “Folk literature”· via Open Library
    • “Tales”· via Open Library
    • “Tales”· in title

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Editions

Open Library reports 5 editions; 1 cataloged here.

as told by natives of Zanzibar

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

in Swahili and English; London: Bell and Daldy, 1870

1870Bell & Daldy; London : Bell & Daldy; London, Bell & DaldyEnglish, SWA—Public

Subjects

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: National Library of Scotland
  • Contributing institution: Oxford University
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Digitization sponsor: National Library of Scotland
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Open Library reports 5 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: google
  • Scanner: scribe1.edinburgh.archive.org
  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): PL8704 .S7 1870
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: in Swahili and English; London: Bell and Daldy, 1870
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL7676985W
Edition coverage
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