An account of the origin & history of the Rift Valleys of East Africa & their relation to the contemporary earth movements which transformed the geography of the world. With some account of the prehistoric stone implements, soil, water supply, & mineral resources of the Kenya Colony.
London, Seeley, 1921
The Gregory Rift in the Great Rift Valley is named in honour of the author. Gregory visited central Kenya in 1892 and again in 1919. He was the first to use the term 'rift valley', which he defined as 'a linear valley with parallel and almost vertical sides, which has fallen owing to a series of parallel faults'.
First edition; 8vo, 479 pp., 20 photographic illustrations, 44 sketches and drawings in the text, 5 maps (4 folding). Original black cloth lettered in green, vignette to upper cover, light fade to spine, neat repairs to extremities, newspaper cutting of portrait of the author to verso of first blank, light foxing to title and occasionally elsewhere, a good copy.
First edition; 8vo, 479 pp., 20 photographic illustrations, 44 sketches and drawings in the text, 5 maps (4 folding). Original black cloth lettered in green, vignette to upper cover, light fade to spine, neat repairs to extremities, newspaper cutting of portrait of the author to verso of first blank, light foxing to title and occasionally elsewhere, a good copy.
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