Sieben Jahre in Sud-Afrika

Mit 235 Original-Holzschnitten und vier Karten.

Pages 528 & 532. In the original pictorial red cloth. Frontispiece of Holub. Previous ownership on title page. Text in German. Four maps complete.

Holub describes his first three expeditions to the remoter regions of southern Africa in the 1870's. Emil Holub's 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.