3 volumes. Second edition 1833.
One of the great African narratives on completing
the navigation of the river Niger.
Cloth cover with gilt title and gilt vignette to spine.
Mottled page-blocks.
Colour endpapers.
Volume I.
lxiv, 272 pages.
Frontispiece portrait.
Full-page map.
Large fold-out map.
1 full-page etched plate.
In-text illustration.
Volume II.
vii, 321 pages.
Frontispiece portrait.
In-text illustration.
3 full-page etched plates.
Volume III.
vii, 354 pages.
Full-page etched plate frontispiece.
1 full-page etched plate.
In-text illustrations.
Richard Lander accompanied Hugh Clapperton as his manservant
on his second expedition to explore the Niger in 1825. The expedition
disembarked on the Nigerian coast determined to strike inland to Sokoto,
then descend the Niger to the Atlantic. Most of the party died of malaria
en-route and it was only Clapperton and Lander who made it to Sokoto.
The local ruler, Mohammed Bello, who had tried to trick Clapperton with
a false map on his first expedition with Denham, agreed to allow them to
return to the sea by way of the Niger. With success all but guaranteed,
Clapperton fell victim to malaria and dysentery and Lander was left to
make his way back alone through territory controlled by hostile tribes.
Lander returned to Nigeria in 1830 on a government-backed expedition
accompanied by his brother John and successfully descended the last
section of the Niger from Bussa to the Atlantic.
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