Author: Mauch, Carl. (Ed. E.E. Burke) (Transcribed & Translated. E. & F.O. Bernhard).
Title: The Journals of Carl Mauch. His Travels in the Transvaal and Rhodesia 1869-1872.
Description: National Archives of Rhodesia 1969. Pale blue cloth boards. 314pp illustrated plates, maps. tall 8vo. 0.8kg. Bookplate to front pastedown. top edge spotted. spine faded to pattern from dustwrapper. an excellent sound clean copy, G+ overall, in lesser dustwrapper (chipped, loss at head of spine, stained lower rear, no major loss or tears). The two maps in rear pocket are as new. Translated from copies of the original journals in the Linden Museum, Stuttgart. Thus available in English for the first time. "The journals include the first detailed description of Zimbabwe to which Mauch adds his views on origin, and are copious with geological and botanical descriptions which are among the earliest known for the areas traversed. His description of the route from Zimbabwe to Senna is the first to be recorded, and he establishes the presence of gold in north-eastern Mashonaland". Includes Journals 1,2,3, & 4. followed by: Appendix A. Mauch's Journey By Water From Potchefstroom To The Diamond Fields On The Vaal (1870/1871). Appendix B. Mauch's First Impressions Of Zimbabwe (1872). Appendix C. Carl Mauch's Geological Observations (1869-1872). Appendix D. Notes On The Botany Of Mauch's Journals. Appendix E. Bibliography.

Keywords: travel rhodesia zimbabwe africa african south southern senna mashonaland


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