Author:
ANDERSSON Charles John
Title:
Lake Ngami or Explorations and Discoveries During Four Years Wanderings In The Wilds Of South Western Africa
Price:
£280.00
Year:
1856
Edition:
1st Edn,
Publisher:
Hurst and Blackett
Summary:
XVIII 546 pages, 16 full page tinted plates by J Woolfe, text illus from woodcuts, large folding map, 4 plates lightly water stained, frontis strengthened on inner margin where card cracked, recased and rebacked with spine relayed in the publishers blind stamped cloth, gilt hippo vignette to upper board, rhino vignette to rear cloth faded. A narrative of 2 expeditions accompanied by Francis Galton to the Ovampo Country and the other he travelled by himself to Lake Ngami, the courage and endurance of the explorers was remarkable, few if any books give so full and complete account of Namapualand Damerland and the Ovampo Country Mendelssohn Vol. I p 44, Czech 5 an important work on African hunting in the 19th century.
Ref:
9721