THE NILE TRIBUTARIES OF ABYSSINIA

Sturdily rebacked using original publisher's cloth binding. Some tide marks early on; some sporadic foxing mainly near page edges and early and late pages. The illustrations appear within the textblock (it seems) every 24 pages instead of as per the List of Illustrations. 

Baker and his young wife, whom he purportedly stole from a slave auction in the Ottoman Empire when he was not the winning bidder, for an entire year explored the many tributaries of the Nile, and learned Arabic in preparation for exploring for the source of the Nile. The Bakers’ subsequent Nile explorations, and meeting John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant on their way back from discovering the source of the Nile, is covered in Baker’s THE ALBERT N’YANZA, which was published in 1866 even though the events occurred AFTER the events of THE NILE TRIBUTARIES, first published in 1867.

Notice the illustration to the front of the book depicting a man using a sword to ham-string an elephant that is chasing another man on horseback!

This is one of the most exciting accounts of true exploration and adventure ever published.

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