Through the Dark Continent or The Sources of the Nile Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. 2 Vols

Beschreibung

Small Quarto. xiv, 522, ix, 566pp., 32 plates, 8 maps bound in, two of them folding, plus 2 folding maps in color in pocket at rear. Original burgundy pebbled leather over marbled boards with gilt ruling on covers, gilt lettering, ruling and tooling on spines; raised bands. Marbled edges and endpapers. Lithographic frontispieces. Numerous wood engravings in text. Stanley's expedition was the largest African expedition ever, controversial and at the same time the most celebrated Africa expedition of the 19th century, exploring and mapping the central African lakes and rivers. Known for finding the missing missionary and explorer David Livingstone's and credited with dispelling notion that the Lualaba was the source of the Nile. "Sir Henry Rawlinson, president of the Royal Geographic Society, said that it was not Stanley who had discovered Livingstone, but Livingstone who had discovered Stanley; and some of the newspapers threw doubts upon the authenticity of the whole story of the expedition, and found 'something mysterious and inexplicable' in it's leader's narrative." (DNB). Light wear along edges of binding, very good and interior in very good+ condition, but the front cover of Vol. II is detached (and this set is priced accordingly).

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

Through the Dark Continent or The Sources of the Nile Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. 2 Vols

Verlag

Harper & Brothers, New York

Erscheinungsjahr

1878

Einband

Hardcover

Auflage

First American edition.

Zustand

vg to vg+

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• Travel, Geography