Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile,

John Hanning Speke

Verlag: William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1863

Beschreibung

SECOND EDITION, 8vo, 658 pp, xxxi, 2 maps including folding map in rear pocket, , 24 plates and 50 in text illustrations, original green cloth, gilt motif and blind tooling, spine repaired, occasional browning to a few plates, folding map soiled but clear, text and illustrations largely clean, Speke was an English explorer and the first European to reach Lake Victoria in East Africa, which he correctly identified as the long-sought source of the Nile. The appendix contains a list of the plants collected by Captain Grant between Zanzibar and Cairo, also a list of men, their duties and pay during the expedition. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers New46

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Journal of the Discovery of the Source of ...

Verlag: William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1863

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Auflage: 2nd Edition