Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection

SPEKE, JOHN HANNING

Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863. First edition. Publisher's orange pictorial cloth gilt. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; xxxi, 658, [2] pp.; folding map with hand color in outline in rear pocket, frontispiece, plates, in-text illustrations, publisher's advertisements. Extremities worn, hinges professionally restored, a bit overopened, scattering foxing.

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. "In this cornerstone book of African exploration, Speke describes his search for the fabled source of the Nile. Accompanied by James A. Grant, the author trekked from the coast into the highlands around then unknown Lake Victoria from whence the Nile flowed. After crossing the Ajagara Range, the party trekked into Mgunda Mkhali where rhinoceros and buffalo were hunted. Later, as they crossed into the kingdom of Uganda, rhino and hippopotamus were bagged. They continued their trek down the Nile where buffalo, eland and rhinoceros were stalked before finally encountering the camp of Samuel White Baker" (Czech). Czech, Africa, pp. 260-261; Hilmy II, p. 255; Howgego IV S53-4.

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