A Walk Across Africa

1 volume.

Very scarce book.

Publishers white cloth with gilt title on spine.

Gilt vignette of a saluting M'Ganda warrior on front cover.

Ex libris on inside cover. 

xviii, 452 pages, [2].

Large folded map in rear pocket [measures 85 x 45 cm]. 

Map of the route adopted by Captains Speke & Grant,

on their journey across Africa from Zanzibar to the Mediterranean

by A. Keith Johnston 1864.

John Augustus Grant and Captain John Hanning Speke left Zanzibar in 1860

to seek the source of the Nile. They successfully reached Gondokoro, in Southern

Sudan in 1863. Grant wrote this account of their journey, focusing particularly 

on matters not included in Speke's Geographical & Botanical account.

"A monumental work of exploration, this represents Grant's experiences traveling

with John Hanning Speke from Zanzibar to the source of the Nile at Lake Victoria,

naming Ripon Falls, then trekking down river to the Mediterranean Sea. There are

numerous descriptions of the terrain and people, with sporting incidents throughout,

particularly after various antelope species, zebra, and an occasional buffalo. North of

the lake in Unyoro, Grant hunted elephant but failed to collect one. The pair eventually

met Samuel Baker who was camped along the river. (Czech, An Annotated Bibliography

of African Big Game Hunting Books, 1785 to 1950, p. 66).

Recorded shipping weight 2000g.

Shipped and insured by recorded delivery.