572 pp. Illustrated with wood engravings, including frontispiece and plates included in the pagination; folding map. 9¼x5¾ in., ¾ burgundy calf with marbled boards, green morocco spine labels, spine titled in gilt and tooled in blind, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. First American Edition. Burton's account of his penetration into the interior of Africa, with John Hanning Speke as his second in command, in search of the source of the Nile River. The journey was to become as famous for the acrimonious relationship between the two explorers as for any geographical knowledge gained, although the latter was significant. Penzer p.66.
572 pp. Illustrated with wood engravings, including frontispiece and plates included in the pagination; folding map. 9¼x5¾ in., ¾ burgundy calf with marbled boards, green morocco spine labels, spine titled in gilt and tooled in blind, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. First American Edition. Burton's account of his penetration into the interior of Africa, with John Hanning Speke as his second in command, in search of the source of the Nile River. The journey was to become as famous for the acrimonious relationship between the two explorers as for any geographical knowledge gained, although the latter was significant. Penzer p.66.
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