Author: SPEKE, John Hanning:
Title: What led to the discovery of the source of the Nile.
Description: Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1864, lg. in-8vo, engraved frontispiece + X + 1 ll. (2 p.: half-title : Journal...Somali Land) + 372 p., + 1 double-page and 1 folding map, a very clean copy, engraved ex-libris 'James Early Smith' and a small legacy stamp on first fly 'C.A.W. Guggisberg', contemporary h.-leather, spine richly gilt. ¶ First edition. An account of Speke's first journey to Central Africa as part of Burton's expedition, during which Speke claimed to have discovered the source of the Nile, a claim vigourously disputed by Burton, although time was to prove Speke correct. The book is in two parts, the first a journal of adventures in Somali-Land, the second a journal of a cruise on the Tanganyika Lake. Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. Hilmy II, p 255.

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