Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1 - Beginnings Chapter 2 - The Start of his Career Chapter 3 - And so to Africa Chapter 4 - First Up Country Trip Chapter 5 - First Journeys to Uganda Chapter 6 - Uganda Safaris and Discoveries Chapter 7 - The Trading Start 1904 to 1914 Chapter 8 - Personal Interlude Chapter 9 - Rudl’s 23 Month Congo Journey Chapter 10 - Final Pre 1914 War Developments Chapter 11 - The First World War Chapter 12 - Post War and Peace Chapter 13 - The Second East African Start Chapter 14 - Coffee Chapter 15 - The Inter War Years Chapter 16 - The Final Years Chapter 17 - Conclusion

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Eve A. Pollecoff here tells the story of Otto Markus - 'Pioneer Merchant Trader' - who established his East African Trading Company in the wake of growing British interest in East Africa: especially Kenya and Uganda.

About the Author

Eve A. Pollecoff was born in Mombasa, Kenya and is the granddaughter of Otto Markus. She received early education locally, including Kenya High School, Nairobi, before Cheltenham Ladies College. After St Andrew's University and postgraduate work at Oxford University, she worked for the Economist Intelligence Unit and after a period living in the USA, taught history of ballet at Rambert Ballet School and at the Stella Mann School, before returning to the EIU. She has served as a JP on the Richmond Bench. Eve A. Pollecoff has written the life of her grandfather as a contribution to the economic history o East Africa, as a family history and especially as a fond debt to her grandfather's memory.