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

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...

Scarce. The author was special correspondent to the Daily News and Daily Telegraph whilst resident in first Jeddah and then Suakin. An Arabic spe...

An interesting early account of life and customs of the Jewish community of the Barbary Coast.Lancelot Addison (1632-1703) was an English author a...

Jennings gives an account of the British expedition against Mohamed Abdille Hassan known as the 'Mad Mullah', as well containing much on local cus...

'Newly married and needing employment, Burton approached the Foreign Office for a consular position, hoping for the post at Damascus. Instead, he ...

Zelie Colvile travelled to Africa, along with her husband, the author of a standard work on the Sudan Campaign, on the advice of their doctor to w...

Scarce. 'A German sportsman, Mohr travelled to the Victoria Falls partly for the sake of hunting, partly in the hope of making geographical discov...

Scarce. Although a missionary work, the book is full of valuable topographical information as well as containing interesting data on natural histo...

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 ...

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...

A superbly bound example in fine condition.In 1869, Baker, one of the greatest explorers of Africa, was appointed by the Khedive Isma'il to a fo...

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...

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 ...

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...

Forbes was a prominent anti-slavery campaigner. He is particularly interesting here on local customs and festivals, which are attractively illustr...

An early English account of Morocco. Windus was the historian of a mission dispatched by George I in 1720 under Commodore Charles Stewart, to trea...

A luxurious production documenting the completion of the most important engineering project undertaken in Africa up until that time, a project tha...

'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...