The Albert N?Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and explorations of the Nile Sources. With maps, illustrations and portraits. In Two Volumes.

BAKER, SAMUEL WHITE:

Verlag: London, Macmillan and Co., 1866 1st edition.

Beschreibung

2 Volumes. Hardbacks, 8 x 5 inches. In green cloth binding with gilt lettering to spines and gilt paneled vignettes to fronts. Light brown endpapers. In very good condition. Nice bright copies. Some very minor rubbing to edges. Volume I very light lean to binding. Two inscriptions on first blank pages. Some foxing on early pages. Folding map has old cellotape repair. Else generally clean & tight. 371 & 372pp. With b&w engraved plates and illustrations within text. Fold out coloured map in Vol I. A day by day account of an expedition to find the source of the White Nile, which proved to be Lake Albert now on the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The author led the expedition and recorded the daily journeys and the people and events. A fascinating account of an expedition in the Victorian era. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 86793

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Titel: The Albert N?Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile,...

Verlag: London, Macmillan and Co., 1866 1st edition.