Author: Farini, G.A.
Title: Through the Kalahari Desert. A Narrative of a Journey with Gun, Camera, and Notebook to Lake N'gami and Back.
Description: Africana Collectanea Volume XLIII. Struik. Cape Town 1973 facsimile of the 1886 Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington edition. Gilt on blind-stamped red 'leather' boards. xx + 475pp illustrated plates, maps. 8vo. No inscription. Forward spine lean, no inscription, a G+ copy in Poor throwaway dustwrapper (heavy wear, chipped, minor loss, small label lower spine, has kept the book clean). folding map unmarked. ISBN: 9780869770283 Limited edition No. 818 of 1000. Although Farini is well known for his supposed discovery of a lost city in the Kalahari desert, his account actually starts in Cape Town where he takes the train to Kimberley. Also covers his time spent in Kimberley and other places en-route, has appendices listing the flora and fauna of the region.

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