Author: Reginald Foskett [ed.]
Title: The Zambesi Journal and Letters of Dr John Kirk 1858-63
Description: Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd , 1965. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the journals and letters of explorer Dr John Kirk in two volumes. The first edition of this work. Complete in two volumes. With unclipped dust wrapper. Featuring frontispieces and nineteen plates. Collated, complete. Providing a day to day account of the progress of the Government Expedition to the Zambesi 1858-63, led by David Livingstone, which explored the rivers leading to the interior from the East Coast of Africa and discovered Lake Nyasa. Written by Sir John Kirk, physician and naturalist, British administrator in Zanzibar, where he was instrumental in ending the slave trade. He was the companion to explorer David Livingstone. In the original publisher's uniform full cloth bindings. Externally very smart with light bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities. Dust wrapper unclipped with light bumping to head and tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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