KRAPF, Rev. Dr. J.
Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labours,
Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labours,
during eighteen years' residence in eastern Africa. Together with journeys to Jagga, Usambara, Ukambani, Shoa, Abessinia, and Khartum; and a coasting voyage from Mombaz to Cape Delgado. With an appendix respecting the snow-capped mountains of eastern Africa; the sources of the Nile; the languages and literature of Abessinia And eastern Africa, etc.etc.
Stock Code 120738
London, Trubner and Co, 1860.
the first travel account of Mount Kilimanjaro and Kenya
Krapf was the first European to see Mounts Kilimanjaro and Kenya. An important account by the German missionary who collected information from the Arab traders operating inland from the coast during his travels. From them, Krapf and his companions learnt of great lakes and snow-capped mountains, which Krapf claimed to have seen for himself, much to the ridicule of English explorers who, incorrectly, could not believe the idea of snow on the equator.First edition; 8vo (23 x 15.5 cm); portrait frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 12 tinted lithograph plates, contemporary ownership inscription to half-title, discreet shelf label to front pastedown; publisher's original gilt pictorial cloth housed in slipcase, spine lettered in gilt, touch of rubbing to extremities but else a clean and bright copy; li, 566 pp.
Neate K47.
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