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NEW, Charles.

Life, Wanderings, and Labours in Eastern Africa.

Life, Wanderings, and Labours in Eastern Africa.

With an account of the first successful ascent of the equatorial snow mountain, Kilima Njaro; and remarks upon East African Slavery,

Stock Code 120478

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1874.

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A wonderfuly bound copy of this account of the first European to reach the snow line of Kilimanjaro. Charles New (1840-1875) had travelled towards Chaga land in hopes of establishing a mission and attempted to ascend Kilimanjaro nearly twenty years before Meyer would. He was a vocal opponent of the slave trade, gave numerous sympathetic accounts of the peoples and tribes he encountered, and was highly thought of by Livingstone who he was at one point co-leader of his relief expedition of 1871.

Second edition; 8vo (19.5 x 14 cm); engraved frontispiece, 10 tinted lithograph plates, 1 large folding map with reinforcement and repair to some folds; contemporary full blind-stamped brown morocco, gilt lettering to upper board, spine in six blind-stamped compartments with gilt lettering, gilt turn-ins with silk endpapers, all edges gilt, a touch of rubbing to extremities, else a fine copy; xii, [2], 525, [3] pp.

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