Du Chaillu in Africa
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Author: Du Chaillu, Paul
Title: Adventures in the Great Forest of Equatorial Africa and the Country of the Dwarfs
Place Published: London
Publisher:John Murray
Date Published: 1892
Description:
Author: Du Chaillu, Paul
Title: Adventures in the Great Forest of Equatorial Africa and the Country of the Dwarfs
Place Published: London
Publisher:John Murray
Date Published: 1892
Description:
xviii, 476 pp. Illustrated with wood engravings, map. (8vo) brown cloth with gilt-stamped gorilla vignette. Abridged and Popular Edition
Paul Belloni Du Chaillu was a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas, and later the Pygmy people of central Africa. He later researched the prehistory of Scandinavia.
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Some tears to cloth at spine, rubbing to edges and corners; a few chips and tears, binding slightly shaken, hints of foxing; about very good.
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