Description: A WALK ACROSS AFRICA, or Domestic Scenes from My Nile Journeyby James Augustus Grant Beautiful Facsimile reprint of the First Edition, originally published in Edinburgh and London by William Blackwood and Sons in 1864. Bound in leather by hand, with sewn page-gatherings for durability. Hand-marbled endsheets. There is also a fine-condition large folding map and a tipped-in frontispiece of Grant. One of the scarcer Nile accounts. 'A monumental work of exploration, this represents Grant's experiences travelling with John Hanning Speke from Zanzibar to the source of the Nile at Lake Victoria, naming Ripon Falls, then trekking down river to the Mediterranean Sea. There are numerous descriptions of the terrain and people, with sporting incidents throughout .' (Czech). Czech p66. WHAT LED TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE NILEby John Hanning Speke Beautiful Facsimile reprint of the First Edition, originally published in Edinburgh and London by William Blackwood and Sons in 1864. Bound in leather by hand, with sewn page-gatherings for durability. Hand-marbled boards and endsheets. There is also a facsimile fold-out map of the Somali coast and facsimile fold-out map of Eastern Africa. Speke's account of his momentous discovery of Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika, undoubtedly less common than his "Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile." Although WHAT LED was published the year after the JOURNAL, this work documents the first 2 expeditions Speke made with Burton. JOURNAL OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE NILEby John Hanning Speke FREE facsimile reprint included with the purchase of the 2 books above I took numerous photos of this book so you can see exactly what you are buying.boer, boers, adventure, novel, epic, romance, fiction, story, tale, tales, hunter, big game, action, exciting, excitement, fun, thriller, best-seller, best seller, zulu, sotho, swaziland, kimberley, johannesburg, pretoria, south africa, xhosa, matabele, tribe, warfare, fantasy, stories, novels, gold mining, diamond mining, Afrikaans, Afkrikaner, Afrikander, Dutch, elephant, antelope, buck, hunting, hunt, matabele, rhodesia, cecil rhodes, diamonds, gold, war, impi, shield, assegai, xhosa, lion, elephant, big game, buffalo, eland, koodoo, kudu, leopard, biltong, mealies, kraal, sotho, sesotho, twsana, setswana, inkosi, nkose, rider haggard, bertram mitford, wilbur smith, antiquarian,
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Subject: Exploration & Travel
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