William Cotton Oswell, Hunter and Explorer. The Story of His Life, with Certain Correspondence and Extracts from the Private Journal of David Livingstone, hitherto unpublished. By his Eldest Son .

[OSWELL, William Cotton] OSWELL, W. Edward

Verlag: William Heinemann, London, 1900

Beschreibung

London, William Heinemann, 1900. Large octavo, two volumes, xxiv, 267 pages with 43 illustrations and plates plus a frontispiece portrait, 6 maps (3 folding, one of them coloured) and an errata slip; and xiv, 289 pages with 16 illustrations plus a frontispiece portrait, a portrait of Livingstone and an errata slip. Original brick-red buckram slightly marked and unevenly sunned; new endpapers; an excellent set, uncut and almost completely unopened. William Cotton Oswell (1818-1893) first went to the Cape in 1844, aged 26, and became 'the most dashing hunter and successful explorer of his time in South Africa'; he shared the discovery of the Zambesi with Livingstone. [2 items]. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 32583

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Titel: William Cotton Oswell, Hunter and Explorer. ...

Verlag: William Heinemann, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1900

Zustand: Very Good