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Speke's Discovery of the Source of the Nile
Speke's Discovery of the Source of the Nile
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Author: Speke, John Hanning
Title: Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
Place Published: Edinburgh
Publisher:William Blackwood & Sons
Date Published: 1863
Description:

xxxi, [1], 658 + [32] ad pp. With 2 steel-engraved portrait plates, including the frontispiece; numerous wood-engraved plates & illustrations; 2 maps, 1 of them folding & loose in rear endpaper pocket. 22.5x14 cm (8¾x5½"), original reddish-brown cloth pictorially stamped in gilt on front cover, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.

Speke's account of his third expedition to Africa, accompanied by James Augustus Grant, when he attempted once and for all to establish the source of the Nile River as Lake Victoria.

Condition
Cloth rubbed, spine creased, corners blunted; binding shaken and front hinge splitting, frontis nearly loose, a touch of foxing, very good.
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