Reprint of 1932 first edition published by the Gold Coast Colony. This is the most exhaustive bibliography cited in Besterman having 5168 listings on the subject of the Gold Coast. (Besterman 2615). The Portuguese who came to Ghana in the 15th Century found so much gold between the rivers Ankobra and the Volta that they named the place Mina, meaning Mine. The Gold Coast was later adopted as a name by the English colonizers. Indexed.