ACROSS AFRICA (VOLUMES 1-2 )

First Edition: 2 volumes, 389 + 366 pages, frontispiece in each volume, 27 full page plates, 4 facsimiles of documents - 3 folding and numerous smaller woodcuts in the text, large folding map at the end of Volume 1 is a facsimile of the original

The books have been rebound in red leatherette with title stamped on spine in silver.

Text is mostly clean with limited foxing throughout, more in volume 2. Little browning of title pages,but mostly clear and bright

A persistent stain appears through sections of both volumes on bottom left corner, text unaffected.

Name on end paper.

Cameron was dispatched by the Royal Geographical Society to come to the aid of Livingstone. However, the expedition proved too late and met up with the explorer's entourage bearing his body. Cameron decided to press on; he retrieved Livingstone's papers at Ujiji, explored Lake Tanganyika further and then endeavoured to trace the connection to the Congo River (in which he failed) but continued westwards to become the first European to cross the continent.