XRARE: 1864 Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile pocket map 1st ed

Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
 

By John Hanning Speke

Harper and Brothers, New York 1864
 

This is the first American edition and contains all 75 illustrations plus the often missing rear pocket map, mounted on canvas. An exciting narrative documenting the exploration for and discovery of the source of the Nile River. A classic of African exploration. Burton invited Speke to Africa as part of an expedition to determine the source of the Nile. Though Burton believed that Lake Tankanyika was the source of the Nile, it was Speke who was to prove that Lake Victoria was the Nile's source after Burton fell ill and could not continue the journey. An enjoyable book which includes many vignettes regarding Africa circa 1850. The author himself had a colorful career having made this same trip twice before with Burton; on one he was stabbed with native spears, he was also temporarily made deaf in one ear by a beetle, and once was temporarily blind and, while he was there, did not actually see Lake Tanganyika, but Burton did.

Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of Speke, map of the River Cali, a large folding map of Eastern Equatorial Africa (in rear pocket), and many wood-engraved plates and text illustrations .

9.25" x 6". green cloth boards with gilt-stamped titles (appears to have been rebound). 590 pages plus publisher's advertising section.
 

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