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Cheesman (R. E.)

LAKE TANA AND THE BLUE NILE (1936)

Published: MacMillan and Co., London, 1936

Edition: First Edition

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Publisher's green cloth binding with gilt on front panel and spine.

xiv + 400pp. 48 photographic illustrations (including a folding panorama frontispiece), 2 folding maps and a plan.

Robert Ernest Cheesman was the H. M. Consul in North-west Abyssinia, and led this surveying expedition to Lake Tana in the course of which he became the first European to visit all the islands on Lake Tana. He also made the first journey from the Lake down the Blue Nile through entirely unexplored country to the furthest point reached by expeditions which had entered Abyssinia from the Sudan.

  • Binding Condition: Very Good
  • Overall Condition: Very Good
  • Sold By: Rare Paper
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