Lot Details
Lot 96
GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS A Walk Across Africa or Domestic Scenes from My Nile Journal.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1864. First edition. Publisher's dull brown cloth, pictorial stamp in blind. 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches; xviii, 452, [2] pp., the last page ads; folding map in rear pocket, frontispiece portrait, half-title. Covers a little marked but sound, an unsophisticated, unrestored copy, the map toned from long proximity to the back board, but in all sound.
"An entertaining work of exploration, this represents Grant's experiences traveling with John Hanning Speke from Zanzibar to the source of the Nile at Lake Victoria, naming Ripon Falls, then trekking down river to Gondokoro and sailing to Khartoum. There are numerous descriptions of the terrain and people, with sporting incidents throughout, particularly after various antelope species, zebra and an occasional buffalo. North of the lake in Unyoro, Grant hunted elephant, but failed to collect one. The pair eventually met Samuel Baker who was camped along the river" (Czech). Czech, Africa, p. 111.
C From the Collection of Quentin Keynes; Gift to his American doctor
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