ENSOR, F. Sidney.

Incidents on a journey through Nubia to Darfoor.

Name: Incidents on a journey through Nubia to Darfoor.
Brand: ENSOR, F. Sidney.
SKU: 96090
Price: 1875.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

Stock Code 96090

London, W. H. Allen & Co., 1881.

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the brooke-hitchin copy

Ensor was engaged in the survey of Wady Milkh or the Inalienable Valley for the proposed line of a railway to Darfoor. Since the reign of Achmat Bokr, Sultan of Darfoor 1682-1722, the Sultans had claimed sole right to use this route, which was anyway regarded as unsafe. This is an account of the adventures the author met on his journey from the second cataract of the Nile, and afterwards at El Fasher, with a description of the country.

First edition; 8vo; original brown cloth gilt, housed in a blue cloth slipcase, a fine copy; viii, 225, [iii] pp.

Provenance

Provenance: 1. Ownership signature of George Barnardo to title page; 2. Franklin Brooke-Hitchin, initials to front free endpaper.

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