A WALK ACROSS AFRICA: OR DOMESTIC SCENES FROM MY NILE JOURNAL

Published by Blackwood, Edinburgh, England, 1864

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Octavo, 8.3 in. x 5.4 in., pp. xviii, 452, {2}. Front leather board and fold-out map missing; rear board detached but present. Full contemporary calf with gilt chain borders, GIlt title on black panel to decorated spine. Spine rebacked with original spine laid down. Scuffs to spine and single rear board. Marbled edges and endpapers. Map pocket to rear pastedown. Light age-toning, and an occasioanal spot, to leaves. Unmarked interior. Textblock solid; spine tight. A supplementary account to Speke's narrative of their expedition, which resolved the problem of the Nile sources. Grant carried out several independent investigations and made valuable botanical collections. His book is sympathetically descriptive of the life and culture of the Africans.

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Title
A WALK ACROSS AFRICA: OR DOMESTIC SCENES FROM MY NILE JOURNAL
Author
Grant, James Augustus
Publisher
Blackwood, Edinburgh, England
Publication year
1864
Condition
Fair
Binding
Leather-bound

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