An Account of Expeditions to the Lake Victoria Nyanza and the Makraka Niam-Niam, West of the Bahr-El-Abiad (White Nile). Illustrated from Colonel Long's Own Sketches.
xvi, 330 pp. + 6 pp catalog at rear. Gilt decorated cloth hardcover. Engraved frontispiece and some full-page tissue-leafed illustrations, 20 Illustrations, folding map printed in colour.
Slight wear to spine ends. Paste-down mark on front fixed EP. Centre 16pp section is slack on the thread. Map is splitting on folds. Otherwise very good condition throughout.
Charles Chaille Long (1842-1917) was born in Maryland of French-Huguenot ancestry. He rose to a captaincy in the 11th Maryland Infantry during the American Civil War. After the war he went to Egypt and was appointed a Colonel in the Egypian Army, eventually becoming chief of staff for Major-General Charles George "Chinese") Gordon during his campaign against the slave trade in the White Nile region. In important account.
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