Mission Scientifique du Bourg de Bozas. De la Mer Rouge à l'Atlantique à travers l'Afrique tropicale (Octobre 1900 - Mai 1903)
- Publisher : F.R. de Rudeval
- Published In : Paris
- Illustrations : portrait frontis, 172 b/w photos, 3 folding col maps
Description:
Preface by Raoul de Saint-Arroman. Vicomte Pierre Marie Robert du Bourg de Bozas (1871-1902), was a French explorer. He proposed an expedition from the Red Sea to the Nile via southern Ethiopia and obtained sponsorship from the Muséum d'histoire naturelle and la Société de Géographie. The mission included geologists, naturalists, ethnographers and astronomers, seeking to cross Africa from the Red Sea to the Atlantic. Arriving in Djibouti, and travelling through Somalia, the mission collected many specimens during their travels. After an initial successful exploration of Abyssinia, De Bozas died of fever in Dungu (Congo). The expedition was considered a scientific success due to the geographic and ethnographic discoveries and the zoological specimens collected. Three folding colour maps illustrate the route of the expedition.
Condition
4to (285x190mm), later quarter calf, gt, marbled boards, patterned endpapers; spine faded, lightly rubbed. Some foxing to frontispiece. Vg. From the library of entomologist and traveller Guillaume Marie de Rougemont (1945-2020), with his ex libris label. De Rougemont had a particular interest in Ethiopia and North-East Africa, where he spent some time.