The present work complements his earlier book The Albert Ny'anza, Great Basin of the Nile, by giving a summary of the Nile system derived from Ba...

Scarce early account of North Africa. The first book on Africa written by an African. The woodcut illustrations include personifications of Africa...

Scarce. Written by a British Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards who disembarked at Massawa in 1874 on a hunting trip in northern Ethiopia and left...

With mention of Evelyn Waugh. An immensely readable and often humorous memoir by a British employee of the Bank of Abyssinia in 1930s Ethiopia. Wit...

A record of a journey through the Soudan to Lake Tsana in western Abyssinia, and of the return to Egypt by the valley of the Atbara.First edition...

'Boyes recounts his adventures in East Africa, particularly hunting elephant in the Lado Enclave, and on safari with W.N. McMillan and C.W.l. Bulp...

The British Niger Expedition of 1841 was commissioned by the British Government to perform two primary tasks: firstly, to work towards the suppres...

A beautifully bound example. The result of Casati's 10-year exploration of the Bahr-el-Ghazal basin in southern Sudan, full of valuable scientific...

With the complete set of the original watercolours. A unique copy with the original highly finished watercolour drawings.William Whitelock Lloyd wa...

'Boyes recounts his adventures in East Africa, particularly hunting elephant in the Lado Enclave, and on safari with W. N. McMillan and C. W. l. B...

Gift from Bowler's children. An attractive book by the 'David Roberts of South Africa'. Inspired by his friend, the writer and fellow artist, Thoma...

A beautifully presented collection of primary works concerning colonisation in Africa in the late nineteenth century. Includes much on slavery as ...

The kernel of the nut. A very interesting letter from the great Nile explorer and adventurer, Samuel Baker in which he discusses the importance of ...

Earliest Utopia set in Terra Australis - source for Gulliver?. A collection of three influential imaginary voyages and works of utopian fiction, he...

Apparently an ancestor of the eponymous jazz singer, the author travelled through Egypt and Nubia, together with his family, arriving at Khartoum,...

Blakesley was a clergyman, who, whilst at Cambridge University was a member of the Apostles Club along with Alfred Lord Tennyson. He wintered in A...

'The narrative describes two expeditions, one in which the author was accompanied by Francis Galton in the Ovampo country, and the other when he t...

Waddington and Hanbury, both Cambridge fellows, decided to embark on an antiquarian tour of Egypt. They were received by the Governor, Mohammed A...

This fine ceramic jug commemorates the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1887-89 and Stanley along with his officers, E. M. Bartelot, W. Bonney, A. J. ...

A fine copy of Allen's River Niger expedition in the preferred deluxe binding.The British Niger Expedition of 1841 was commissioned by the British...