THE OKAVANGO RIVER

A Narrative of Travel, Exploration and Adventure.

364 pages, wood engraved frontispiece, engraved title page vignette - a portrait of the author, 15 plates, recent half brown calf gilt, marbled paper sides, plates foxed – mainly restricted to the margins, otherwise contents good.

Wallis (J.P.R.) \'Fortune My Foe\' (1936), pages 256-258. \'From a variety of causes it was less effective than his Lake Ngami. In the first place, his instinctive reticence shrank from obtruding his personal sufferings and disappointments upon his reader. It was a manly modesty in him, but did his narrative less than justice. So it is that while the first chapters are as attractive as anything in Lake Ngami, and perhaps fine in their record of achievement and maturer in spirit, the later portions too readily decline into transcripts from the journals and show a falling off in freshness and gusto.\'
Andersson had been unable to follow the book through the press and was disappointed in the lack of editorial control in the final product. An American edition was issued in the same year but it was not reprinted in London and remains perhaps the scarcest of Andersson’s books.