NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL AFRICA, IN THE YEARS 1822, 1823, AND 1824

by Major Denham, Captain Clapperton, and the Late Doctor Oudney, extending across the Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of Nothern Latitude, and from Kouka in Bornou. to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Fellatah Empire.

With An Appendix.     

xlviii, 335, 269, (iii List of Plates), pages, engraved frontispiece, 34 engraved plates - 1 hand coloured, 6 vignettes in the text, 3 plans, large folding map – Map of the Travels and Discoveries made in Northern & Central Africa, old half leather rebacked preserving the backstrip, marbled paper sides. The leather and marbled paper is very worn and rubbed, the text and plates are lightly foxed throughout and this worse in the Appendix which appears to be printed on less good quality paper.

Hugh Clapperton, Dixon Denham and Walter Oudney (who died in the course of the expedition) were the first Europeans to travel across the Sahara from Tripoli to Bornu and Hausaland.