1863 AFRICA 1st ed Speke Journal of Discovery of Source of the NILE River Egypt

1863 AFRICA 1^st ed Speke Journal of Discovery of Source of the NILE River Egypt

John Speke’s ‘Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile’ is a rare, 19^th-century account of his third African expedition in which he and his crew ventured to confirm his theories about the origins of the Nile River. Joined with Captain James Augustus Grant, Speke traveled to Lake Victoria to confirm the Nile’s source.

According to the DNB,

“the importance of Speke’s discoveries can hardly be overestimated. In discovering the ‘source reservoir’ of the Nile he succeeded in solving the ‘problem of all ages’ He and Grant were the first Europeans to cross Equatorial Eastern Africa, and thereby gained for the world a knowledge of rather more than eight degrees of latitude, or about five hundred geographical miles, in a portion of Eastern Africa previously totally unknown.”

Item number: #27226

Price: $750

SPEKE, John Hanning

Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile

Edinburgh : William Blackwood and Sons, 1863. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • xxxi, [1], 658, [30]
  • 77 illustrations
    • 49 in-text engravings
    • 27 full-page engravings
    • 1 folding map
  • Reference: Howgego IV S53-4; DNB LIII, p. 327
  • Provenance: Handwritten
    • James Tindall
    • [ B. Myers]
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
    • Cloth
  • Size: ~9.25in X 6.5in (23.5cm x 16cm)

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