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Notes taken during travels in Africa...
DAVIDSON, John.Original price $3,196.00 - Original price $3,196.00Original price $3,196.00$3,196.00$3,196.00 - $3,196.00Current price $3,196.00Rare privately printed journal of Davidson's attempt to cross the Western Sahara from Tangier to Timbuktoo which ended with his murder in November...
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Lake Ngami;
ANDERSSON, Charles John.Original price $1,598.00 - Original price $1,598.00Original price $1,598.00$1,598.00$1,598.00 - $1,598.00Current price $1,598.00The narrative describes two expeditions, one in which the author was accompanied by Francis Galton in the Ovampo country, and the other when he tr...
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Narrative of a journey to Morocco,
HODGKIN, Thomas, M.D.Original price $1,406.00 - Original price $1,406.00Original price $0.00$1,406.00$1,406.00 - $1,406.00Current price $1,406.00Dr. Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866), an eminent physician was the first to identify the type of lymphoma now known as Hodgkins disease. He travelled t...
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Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia.
WADDINGTON, George; HANBURY, Rev. Barnard.Original price $1,726.00 - Original price $1,726.00Original price $1,726.00$1,726.00$1,726.00 - $1,726.00Current price $1,726.00Waddington and Hanbury, both Cambridge fellows, decided to embark on an antiquarian tour of Egypt. They were received by the Governor, Mohammed A...
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Expedition to discover the sources of the White Nile,
WERNE, Ferdinand.Original price $3,196.00 - Original price $3,196.00Original price $3,196.00$3,196.00$3,196.00 - $3,196.00Current price $3,196.00Werne (1822-1874), a German adventurer, took part in the second European exploratory mission to discover the source of the White Nile, under the l...
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Travels in southern Abyssinia,
JOHNSTON, Charles.Original price $2,365.00 - Original price $2,365.00Original price $0.00$2,365.00$2,365.00 - $2,365.00Current price $2,365.00Rare 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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The source of the Blue Nile
HAYES, Arthur J.Original price $1,406.00 - Original price $1,406.00Original price $0.00$1,406.00$1,406.00 - $1,406.00Current price $1,406.00A 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...
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The Kilima-Njaro Expedition.
JOHNSTON, Harry Hamilton.Original price $1,087.00 - Original price $1,087.00Original price $0.00$1,087.00$1,087.00 - $1,087.00Current price $1,087.00Johnston 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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Khartoum,
MELLY, GeorgeOriginal price $1,087.00 - Original price $1,087.00Original price $1,087.00$1,087.00$1,087.00 - $1,087.00Current price $1,087.00Apparently an ancestor of the eponymous jazz singer, the author travelled through Egypt and Nubia, together with his family, arriving at Khartoum,...
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