Cape to Cairo by Grogan and Sharp (4 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Undated c1910. Reprint. 379pp., frontispiece and 7 other black and white illustrations, a folding map, and a 5-page catalogue at the end of the book. Ewart Scott Grogan (1874-1967) was an English explorer, politician, and entrepreneur. He was the first person in recorded history to walk the length of Africa, from Cape Town to Cairo. He reached Cairo in 1900, after two and a half years of travelling, and during his travels, he had been stalked by lions, hippos, and crocodiles, pursued by headhunters and cannibals, plagued by parasites and fevers. In this book he writes of his expriences. The book is bound in the original blue cloth covered boards with gold titling and decoration on the spine and black decoration and designs on the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some light soiling to the boards and bumping to the spine ends. The contents are tight and clean with a crease across the top corner of pages 345 to 366. The free endpapers are browned and a name and date (1912) has been written on the back of the frontispiece.

Hardcover. Condition: Gut. New Edition. 379 pp., 1 map, several illustrations Original blue cover with gold embossing on spine, no dust jacket, head gold edge. Cover with slight signs of wear, endpaper more browned. Name on flyleaf and on page 1. Inside otherwise clean and good 367 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 400.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. From Cape to Cairo. The First Traverse of Africa from South to North. BY E S Grogan and A H Sharp. Publisher: Hurst and Blackett, Limited, 1902. Colonial Edition. New and Revised Edition issued within two years of the first. Profusely illustrated throughout with two large folding coloured maps and 50 plates. Good hardback with no jacket. Red cloth boards with titles in black. Boards have some marks, rubbing and bumping to edges, with some fading around edges to back cover. Spine is chipped and frayed with some loss to the cloth at both ends. Inscription in pencil to ffep and dated 1910. Signed By A McCosh Clark, believed to be Archibauld Clark of Auckland, son of New Zealand author Kate Emma McCosh Clark. Scattered foxing to pages. Fold out maps are complete. One is very good with some creasing and a tear in the margin. The second map has a closed tear that goes across the map area for about 5cm. Grogan and Sharp embarked on one of the most perilous treks in Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope to Cairo, Egypt, on foot, establishing that Africa could ostensibly be crossed by railway. They traveled to the Zambezi, then through the lake districts of central Africa, on to the Upper Nile, to Khartoum and on to Cairo. Marching up the Pungwe, the party hunted buffalo and lion. On the Chiperoni, they bagged sable and rhinoceros, while in the Rusisi Valley near Lake Albert, the pair succeeded in bagging several elephant. Grogan ran into particular difficulty with the Dinkas and Nuers in the upper reaches of the Nile before finally making his way to Cairo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. New and revised edition. portrait of the author (frontis), profusely illustrated, Numerous encounters with wild elephants and savage tribes, with one folding color map , 402pp, original blue cloth, slightly worn. very good book.