Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile

Description:

Second edition. A landmark account of Victorian exploration, this firsthand narrative documents John Hanning Speke’s 1860-1863 expedition that identified Lake Victoria as the headwaters of the Nile. Combining travel diary, geographical observation, and ethnographic detail, it became a foundational text in African exploration literature and a pivotal work in the long-debated quest to locate the Nile’s source. Includes accounts of big game hunting.

Czech p. 260.

Condition

8vo (218x147mm), orig. brown cloth, rebacked with original spine preserved, ornate gilt border to front cover, blind to rear, gilt title and decoration to spine, all edges gilt, new endpapers. Title page and frontispiece lightly foxed, tissue guard browed. Very good.