Author: Sir Samuel W. Baker
Title: The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs
Description: London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1872. Cloth. A new edition of this detailed work on the Nile and its tributaries, with a folding map. New edition. Illustrated with a map frontispiece, one folding map, and twenty-four plates. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive work following the author's time in Africa exploring the Nile and its surrounding area. With chapters on Cairo, the Nubian Desert, shooting crocodile, Cassala to Souakim, desert storms, plagues of Egypt, rafting, lions and buffalo, and more. Written and illustrated by Sir Samuel White Baker, an English explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, sound with rubbing and light bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine and board edges with the odd mark to the spine. Small splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine with a 2" split to the rear joint. Hinges starting but firm. Internally, generally firmly bound with rear endpapers and one page of advertisements detached. Pages are bright with light scattered spotting. Good Only . Ill.: Sir Samuel W. Baker. Good Only .

Keywords: Nile Tributaries Abyssinia Sword Hunters Tributaries Baker Sir Samuel W. Baker


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