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This book provides a historical ethnography of the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. It describes local legends, and their important social function in recording

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Joyce, M. (2004). Ruling Shaikhs and Her Majesty’s Government, 1960-1969: 1960-1969. Routledge.

This volume discusses the evolution of the British-protected Gulf states during the 1960s and explains how these small Shaikhdoms moved towards independence. Based on extensive research using British documents from the Public Records Office and selected American documents from the National Archives, this book investigates the relationship between British officials and Arab Gulf Shaikhs. At the beginning of what was to be their final years as guardians of the Gulf, British officials pressed for political progress, co-operation among the Shaikhdoms and improvements in education and health care. At the same time, Foreign Office officials continued to safeguard specific British economic interests and the political interests of the Western Alliance.

Ruete, E. (2012). Mémoires d’une princesse arabe (C. Le Cour Grandmaison, Ed.). Karthala.

Ruete, E., & Donzel, E. J. van. (1993). An Arabian princess between two worlds: memoirs, letters home, sequels to the memoirs: Syrian customs and usages. Brill.

Middleton, J. (1963). [Review of History of Zanzibar from the Middle Ages to 1856. By Sir Gray John. London: Oxford University Press, 1962. Pp. 313, maps. 42s., by J. M. Gray]. Africa, 33(2), 160–161. https://doi.org/10.2307/1158291

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Gray, J. M. (1962). History of Zanzibar, from the Middle Ages to 1856. Oxford University Press.

Blood, H. (1963). [Review of History of Zanzibar from the Middle Ages to 1856 / John gray Miller, by J. M. Gray]. African Affairs, 62(247), 166–167. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a095101

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Gilbert, E. (2004). Dhows & the colonial economy in Zanzibar, 1860-1970. Ohio University Press.

Burton, R. F. (2011). Zanzibar: City, Island, and Coast (Vol. 1). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139051866

First published in 1872, this two-volume memoir by explorer, ethnographer and diplomat Sir Richard Burton (1821–90) was written while Burton and John Hanning Speke were making preparations for their expedition to solve one of the major geographical mysteries of the nineteenth century - the location of the source of the Nile. The pair arrived in Zanzibar in December 1856, and Burton made detailed notes on his surroundings which were developed into Volume 1, which focuses on 'The City and the Island', including Burton's journey preparations and arrival. He discusses the significance of the 'Nile question' as well as recording geographical, botanical, meteorological and ethnographic observations. The manuscript on which the book is based, entrusted to an East India Company official for dispatch to the Royal Geographical Society, was initially misplaced, thus delaying publication by twelve years, but enabling Burton to add a chapter on Speke's achievement and untimely death.

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Burton, R. F. (2011). Zanzibar: City, Island, and Coast (Vol. 2). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139051873

First published in 1872, this two-volume memoir by explorer, ethnographer and diplomat Sir Richard Burton (1821–90) was written while Burton and John Hanning Speke were making preparations for their expedition to solve one of the major geographical mysteries of the nineteenth century - the location of the source of the Nile. Volume 2 concerns the two journeys to the interior of West Africa, a 'tentative expedition' in early 1857, and the nineteen-month exploration, which began in June 1857, into the East African highlands. Burton was in poor health, and Speke travelled further north without him; he discovered Lake Victoria, and (rightly) concluded that it was the source of the Nile. This led to the notorious dispute between the two explorers, and in his final chapter, written after Speke's tragic death, Burton gives the history of the argument, and vehemently denies any jealousy or personal enmity on his part.

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