Hardcover. MI, Northwestern University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial binding, 128 pages, 47 maps, 60 b&w illustrations. Mombasa is the largest and most important port on the East African coast. A brief history of it's European colonizers is followed by a study of the port city and how it empowered the economy in the 1960s. Clean copy.