books.google.ca - Max Esser was an adventurous young merchant banker, a Rhinelander, who became the first managing director of the largest German plantation company in Cameroon. This volume gives a vivid account of the antecedents and early stages as experienced and described by Esser. In 1896 he ventured, with the explorer...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Cameroon_s_Tycoon.html?id=9T24NQCXMtwC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareCameroon's Tycoon