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A walk across Africa

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or domestic scenes from my Nile journal.

A walk across Africa

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or domestic scenes from my Nile journal.

Stock Code 98928

Edinburgh and London, Blackwood, 1864

DRAFT One of the scarcest Nile accounts. 'A monumental work of exploration, this represents Grant's experiences travelling with John Hanning Speke from Zanzibar to the source of the Nile at Lake Victoria, naming Ripon Falls, then trekking down river to the Mediterranean Sea. There are numerous descriptions of the terrain and people, with sporting incidents throughout ...' (Czech).

First edition. 8vo, xviii, 452, 33 pp., large folding map hand-coloured in outline in pocket at end original green cloth gilt stamp of a tribesman with spear and shield to upper cover in gilt, a fine copy.
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Our Bookshop and Gallery can be found in the heart of Mayfair at 106 New Bond Street, where most of our stock is available to view and on public display.

We exhibit at major international art fairs, including TEFAF (Maastricht and New York), Frieze Masters, Art Miami and Masterpiece London, as well as antiquarian & rare book fairs including New York, Paris, London, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Hong Kong.

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A walk across Africa

GRANT, James Augustus.

Stock code: 98928

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