The Last of the Nuba

New York: Harper & Row, 1974. 1st U.S. ed. Folio in color photo illus jacket; 208 pages: illustrations (some color); 32 cm; bibliographical references (pages 206-207)./ Also issued online. Fine in fine(-) price-clipped jacket with faint edge-wear, in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 0060135492; 9780060135492

"From 1962 until 1977 Riefenstahl had been living as the first white woman with a special permission issued by the Sudanese government in the remote valleys of the central Sudan among the Nuba tribe. She studied their way of life and recorded it on film and in pictures. These picture documents hold a unique anthropological, ethnological, and cultural-historical importance due to the circumstances through which the Nuba's historical way of life is approaching its irreversible end, primarily through the advance of civilization."—Publisher. / Translation of: Die Nuba. Stunning color photography. **Due to size and weight, extra shipping costs for expedited service or international destinations apply. Please inquire. ** Nuba (African people) -- Pictorial works. Nouba (Peuple d'Afrique) Native Peoples of Africa, Sudan. Tribes Photography