Author:
PETHERICK John
Title:
Egypt, the Soudan, and Central Africa; with Explorations from Khartoum on the White Nile to the Region of the Equator being Sketches from Sixteen Years' Travels
Price:
£225.00
Year:
1861
Edition:
1st
Publisher:
William Blackwood
City of Publication:
Edinburgh
Summary:
xii - 482 pages + 16-page publishers' catalogue large folding map at end with old repair to verso off the map and a closed tear approx. 10 cm. Inscription to top margin of ? title dated 1863 -1868. Recased with new end papers in the publisher's brown blind stamped cloth. Petherick, a contemporary of Baker, Burton, and Speke, travelled along the Nile Valley through Kordofan and into the unknown region beyond. Contains some hunting incidents hunting Gazelle, Buffalo and rhinoceros, with a description of a nati0ve hunt for elephants. Czech p129 ?225
Ref:
21897
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