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  • Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile.

    SPEKE, John Hanning.
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    Speke's third and final expedition to Africa. The account of Speke's third and final expedition to Africa. This took place in 1860 with his friend ...

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  • The Great Rift Valley,

    GREGORY, J[ohn] W[alter].
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    Highland regions of Mount Kenya. Important exploration expedition in the hitherto unknown highland regions of Mt. Kenya.In 1892 Gregory was seconde...

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  • New light on dark Africa:

    PETERS, Carl.
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    A German counterpart to Stanley's In Darkest Africa. 'A German counterpart to Stanley's In Darkest Africa, this represents Peter's journey to find ...

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  • The Kilima-Njaro Expedition.

    JOHNSTON, Harry Hamilton.
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    Johnston was invited in 1884 on behalf of the Royal Society to undertake a scientific mission to explore Mount Kilimanjaro and its surroundings. T...

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  • To the Central African Lakes and back:

    THOMSON, Joseph.
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    The expedition was sent by the RGS under its African Exploration Fund scheme. It was led by the cartographer Keith Johnston on a route from Dar es...

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  • With the Abyssinians in Somaliland

    JENNINGS, Major J[ames] Willes; ADDISON, Christopher.
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    Jennings gives an account of the British expedition against Mohamed Abdille Hassan known as the 'Mad Mullah', as well containing much on local cus...

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  • Travels and researches among the lakes

    ELTON, J. Frederic.
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    A finely bound example of a scarce title. J. Frederic Elton was British Consul in Mozambique. He died in 1877 near Zanzibar before this title was ...

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  • A short relation of the river Nile,

    LOBO, Jeronimo.
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    Early account of the Nile. One of the earliest records of travels in Ethiopia, translated from Lobo's Itinerario by Sir Peter Wyche (1628-1699). W...

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  • Travels in southern Abyssinia,

    JOHNSTON, Charles.
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    Rare account of Johnston's expedition to the court of Shoa.Johnston, a surgeon in the British navy, was 'a careful observer and incisive writer, h...

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  • Travels in the coastlands of British East Africa

    FITZGERALD, William.
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    The author spent two years exploring and mapping the coastline. As well as the detailed study of his findings, the book also contains accounts of ...

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  • The River War.

    CHURCHILL, Winston.
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    Churchill's account of his adventures during the war in the Sudan. In vivid style the book describes the background to the war, the relationship of...

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  • Travels to discover the source of the Nile,

    BRUCE, James.
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    'In 1768, with Italian artist and friend Luigi Balugani, Bruce resolved to mount an expedition to search for the source of the Nile River. They we...

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  • First footsteps in East Africa.

    BURTON, Richard Francis.
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    The forbidden city of Harar. Burton's first expedition to Somalia, made in order to explore the forbidden city of Harar (which he was the first Eur...

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  • A Voyage to Abyssinia,

    SALT, Henry.
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    Salt had previously visited Ethiopia in 1805 as part of Viscount Valentia's entourage, visiting Massawa, Aksum, Adwa, and other parts of Tegré.'In...

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  • Uganda for a holiday.

    TREVES, Frederick.
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    Sir Frederick Treves was the prominent Victorian surgeon famous for treating Joseph Merrick sometimes known 'The Elephant Man'. He spent much time...

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  • In the Grip of the Nyika:

    PATTERSON, Lieut.-Col. John Henry.
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    'Patterson revisits the infamous sites of Tsavo, then treks into the Nyika, or wilderness of British East Africa... there is also a feverish encou...

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  • Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile.

    SPEKE, John Hanning.
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    The account of Speke's third and final expedition to Africa. This took place in 1860 with his friend and fellow Indian army officer James Grant (1...

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  • In the grip of the Nyika

    PATTERSON, Lieut.-Col. John Henry.
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    'Patterson revisits the infamous sites of Tsavo, then treks into the Nyika, or wilderness of British East Africa ... there is also a feverish enco...

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  • British East Africa

    McDERMOTT, P.L.
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    Important history of this Royal Charter Company including much on relations with Zanzibar and its Sultan. First edition. 8vo, xvi, 382 pp., foldin...

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  • [Ethiopic] Sive, Jobi Ludolfi I.C. Lexicon Æthiopico-Latinum,

    LUDOLF, Hiob.
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    The most illustrious name in Ethiopic scholarship. After studying philology at the Erfurt academy and at Leiden, Ludolf travelled in order to incre...

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  • De Abassinorum rebus, deque Aethiopiae Patriarchis

    GODINHO, Nicolao.
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    An important account of Ethiopia written by a Portuguese Jesuit, primarily relating to an account of Ethiopia in the second half of the sixteenth ...

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  • Manuscript travel diary, 1913-23.

    [ABYSSINIA].
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    An exciting and detailed diary recording the exploits of an unknown employee at the Bank of Abyssinia and his travel companion, the British army o...

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  • The highlands of Æthiopia.

    HARRIS, Major William Cornwallis.
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    Captain Harris, the British envoy to King Sahla of Shawa, landed at Tjurah in 1841 and remained in the country until 1843. 'The author gives us in...

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  • The life and adventures of ...

    PEARCE, Nathaniel.
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    On the departure of Henry Salt in 1810, his servant Nathaniel Pearce remained in Ethiopia until 1819, becoming fluent in Tegrenya and Amharic. 'A ...

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