SEVEN YEARS IN SOUTH AFRICA

Travels, researches, and hunting adventures, between the diamond-fields and the Zambesi, 1872-79, Translated by E.E. Frewer.

Facsimile reproduction of the 1881 edition with a new Foreword.

De Luxe edition: 2 volumes, 426 + 479 pages, frontispiece, folding colour map, numerous plates and illustrations in the text, full light brown leather with green title labels on the spines, top edges gilt, contained in a green rexine slip cases. A very good set.

This leather-bound edition in the Africana Reprint Library series is limited to 107 copies.

This is No. 91

Holub describes his first three expeditions to the remoter regions of southern Africa in the 1870's. His compelling ambition was to follow in the footsteps of Dr Livingstone and, specifically, to reach Luanda by way of the Zambesi valley and across Angola. That he failed in his principle objective does not diminish his stature as a traveller-explorer nor, indeed, the fascination which modern readers will derive from his meticulous accounts of the journeys, the third of which took him to the upper reaches of the Zambesi River.