THE GREAT RIFT VALLEY

1 volume. First edition 1896.

Fine binding by Bickers & Son., London.

Half leather over blue cloth.

Gilt armorial crest, gilt lineal borders.

Gilt title, raised bands with gilt panel vignettes.

Gilt top page-blocks.

Marbled endpapers.

Prize bookplate on inside cover.

xxi, 422 pages.

Colour frontispiece plate.

20 full-page plates.

Full-page and in-text maps and illustrations.

2 fold-out colour maps [22x34cm & 26x36cm].  

Important exploration expedition in the hitherto unknown highland

regions of Mt. Kenya. In 1892 Gregory was seconded as naturalist

to a large expedition to British East Africa; when this collapsed he

set out on his own with a party of forty Africans. In five months he

completed scientific observations in fields ranging from structural

geology and physical geography to anthropology, and from mountaineering

and glacial geology to the malarial parasites. His major success was the

study in this region of the volcanic rocks and structural features of what

he termed the 'Great Rift Valley' . [ABE reference].

"This is primarily a work of exploration, mainly in the unknown

highlands of the Mt. Kenia region. The author does describe a

hunt for rhinoceros on the Kapte Plain and hunting lion in the

Kikuyu country." [Czech, pg 67. An Annotated Bibliography of African

Big Game Hunting Books, 1785 to 1950].

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