ZANZIBAR; AND TWO MONTHS IN EAST AFRICA

[2],784 pages. The Burton articles pages 200-224, 276-290 & 572-589. Ex - John Rylands University Library of Manchester copy (basement reference stacks.) Contents very clean, bright and crisp.

Half brown calf with red leather title labels on the spine, marbled paper boards. Accession label removed from the toe of the spine, small Basement label on the upper board. Library sticker on the front endpaper. Withdrawn stamp on front endpaper above a bar code strip, no other stamps. Overall a very good copy.

Burton left England in October 1856, under the patronage of the Royal Geographical Society he was leading an expedition to discover the sources of the Nile. Written in three parts 1. Zanzibar; And Two Months in East Africa. 2. Departure from Mombas. 3. The March to Fuga; Return to Zanzibar. This account is the first appearance in print of the first two month's of that expedition and pre dates by two years Burton's book' The Lake Regions of Central Africa, A Picture of Exploration, 2 volumes, London 1860. 

Penzer (Norman M.) An Annotated Bibliography of Sir Richard Francis Burton, London, A.M. Philpot Ltd., 1923, page 200, Notes the three articles in Blackwood's Magazine.

Casada (James A.) Sir Richard Burton, A Biobibliographical Study, London, Mansell, 1990, no. 186, ‘Burton promised this manuscript in mid-1857, but it did not reach Edinburgh until February 1858. Burton later fell out with the Blackwood Family, who  became close friends (and the publishers) of Speke.’