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Century, , 1987. 176pp, illustrations, e.p. maps. F/F. The biography of an adventurous, colourful, and unusually gifted Victorian traveller of the 1840's. He became part of a villag… More...

Century, , 1987. 176pp, illustrations, e.p. maps. F/F. The biography of an adventurous, colourful, and unusually gifted Victorian traveller of the 1840's. He became part of a village community in Abyssinia (Ethiopia), married a village girl, and travelled a route no European had previously taken from the Red Sea to Khartoum. . 1st.edn.., Century, 1987, 0, London: Royal Geographical Society, 1929. 28 pages. Plus a fold-out colour map measuring approximately 15.75 x 13.25 inches (40 x 34cm) . Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. A most captivating first-hand chronicle of Arnold Hodson's exciting expedition which pre-dates Hodson's all-important book, "Where Lion Reign: An Account of Lion Hunting & Exploration in S.W. Abyssinia", first published in 1930. The laborious and innovative expedition performed dangerous river crossings, traveled along narrow ridges and atop a high plateau with views of the Kibish valley and Omo flats, passed through several small villages, and through a tse-tse fly belt! Includes a large fold-out color map showing routes taken from 1923 to 1926 through southwest Abyssina, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Uganda, and Kenya, also delineating international versus intercolonial boundaries. Also with fascinating ethnographic descriptions of various tribes. Ethiopia's history has long been filled with turbulent war and needless bloodshed. At the time of this expedition there was numerous threats to her borders, and peoples. In the 1920s, there was tension with Italy and Great Britain, as each tried to extend its influence in Ethiopia. . First Edition., Royal Geographical Society, 1929, 0, London: Royal Geographical Society, 1920. THREE FASCIANTING AND VALUABLE AFRICA REPORTS IN ONE ISSUE. Altogether 43 pages, including setkch maps. Plus photographic plates. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. The captivating and comprehensive account of Major Athilll's remarkable journey through Abyssinia to the Nile is very detailed and beautifully illustrated with photographs, depicting a slave-trader returning from a successful raid, a native girl of Wotta, high-class Galla farmers, a native of Shoa Ghimirpa, and the Gojeb and Omo rivers, and accompanied by 2 sketch maps, one being an illustration of Major Athill's travel route from Maji to Mongalla. This exceptional account is 24 pages. An engaging account of Major Stevenson-Hamilton through part of the Dinka country east of Bahr-el-Gebel contains vivid and delightful description of various tribes inhabiting east of the Nile, containing a sketch map of the Dinka country and several amazing photographic illustrations showing a Dinka cattle Morah, Sudanese officers with nude Twi Dinkas, Duk Fadiat post, and a swamp near Bahr-El-Jebel. The account is 13 pages. The Colony and Protectorate of Kenya was part of the British Empire in Africa. It was established when the former East Africa Protectorate was transformed into a British crown colony in June 1920, the 9-page related report was published only several months after and contains much valuable information. . First Edition., Royal Geographical Society, 1920, 0, Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1868 In German: Originalkarte von Central Abessinien. Zum Grossen Theil nach Unpublicirten Documenten. This map is a base of black and white with travel routes in red. From "Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anstalt uber Wichtige Neue Erforschungen auf dem Gessammtgebiete der Geographie von Dr. A. Petermann, 1868." Roughly: "Communications from Justus Perthes’ Geographical Institute Concerning Important New Studies in the Whole Field of Geography by Dr. Augustus Petermann, 1868." Condition notes: 9.8" wide X 14.2" high, in 4 panels (folded once in each direction) modestly toned, mild page waviness, 1 inch tears left and bottom margins, upper left margin crinkled., Justus Perthes, 1868, 3, Willliam Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1861. Colored margins and some divisions. Tribal designations, caravan routes. From Keith Johnston's General Atlas. From 31 to 45 deg. E. long.; from 7 to 18 deg. N. lat. 57x44cm, vg+.., Willliam Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1861, 0, Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1868 In German: Die ersten Aufnahmen der Englischen Armee in Abessinien, Nach Offiziellen Mitteilungen. Nebst Ubersicht des Voraussichtlichen Kriegsschauplatzes bis Magdala. This map is a base of black, with Army travel routes in red and yellow. From "Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anstalt uber Wichtige Neue Erforschungen auf dem Gessammtgebiete der Geographie von Dr. A. Petermann, 1868." Roughly: "Communications from Justus Perthes’ Geographical Institute Concerning Important New Studies in the Whole Field of Geography by Dr. Augustus Petermann, 1868." Condition notes: 8.1" wide X 21.2" high, in 3 panels (accordion folded twice in the same direction) modestly toned, mild page waviness., Justus Perthes, 1868, 3, London: Royal Geographical Society, 1907. 14 pages, including photographic illustrations. Plus a fold-out color map, measuring approximately 11.5 x 10 inches (30 x 25cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. Map with a minor repaired tear at fold, otherwise this is is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. The author, Major Powell-Cotton, was a notable traveller whose explorations were mainly for the purpose of game hunting and collecting important specimens for natural history museums. His first important expedition was in Western Tibet. He travelled in Somaliland in 1895-6, and afterwards in Abyssinia. In 1903 he travelled in Northern Uganda, and one year later in November 1904, he set on his journey of twenty-seven months in the equatorial forests and through the eastern part of the Congo, during which he made an extensive and important collections in natural history, among them include an okapi skin and skeleton, several specimens of the northern white rhinocero, six new mammals including a water-chevrotain, the Central African ratel, the dusky African tiger-cat, an elephant shrew, a black-white monkey, the Semliki red Buffalo, some 8000 lepidoptera, and a number of ethnological objects. In his captivating expedition account, he outlines his travel route and provides a fascinating description of the great Ituri forest and the inhabitants including the Pygmies, the Mongwana - the descendants of the Arab ivory and slave traders, and the Babila. He spends several months in Makala, one of the great rubber centres of the Congo, camps for a few weeks at the north-west corner of Lake Albert, at Katwi he passes a crater-lake where a considerable salt industry were caried on by the natives, visits floating village at Katanga, here he describes villagers to be a robust and well-built race, living on hippo-hunting and fishing, and trading salt from Katwi for sheep, he returns to Mombasa by the Toro-Entebbe route, and back home. Accompanied by a spectacular colour route map of the Congo State and Uganda, and illustrated with excellent photographs. . First Edition., Royal Geographical Society, 1907, 0, 2011-03-26. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service!, 2011-03-26, 2.5<

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London: Royal Geographical Society, 1929. 28 pages. Plus a fold-out colour map measuring approximately 15.75 x 13.25 inches (40 x 34cm) . Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to … More...

London: Royal Geographical Society, 1929. 28 pages. Plus a fold-out colour map measuring approximately 15.75 x 13.25 inches (40 x 34cm) . Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. A most captivating first-hand chronicle of Arnold Hodson's exciting expedition which pre-dates Hodson's all-important book, "Where Lion Reign: An Account of Lion Hunting & Exploration in S.W. Abyssinia", first published in 1930. The laborious and innovative expedition performed dangerous river crossings, traveled along narrow ridges and atop a high plateau with views of the Kibish valley and Omo flats, passed through several small villages, and through a tse-tse fly belt! Includes a large fold-out color map showing routes taken from 1923 to 1926 through southwest Abyssina, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Uganda, and Kenya, also delineating international versus intercolonial boundaries. Also with fascinating ethnographic descriptions of various tribes. Ethiopia's history has long been filled with turbulent war and needless bloodshed. At the time of this expedition there was numerous threats to her borders, and peoples. In the 1920s, there was tension with Italy and Great Britain, as each tried to extend its influence in Ethiopia. . First Edition., Royal Geographical Society, 1929, London: Royal Geographical Society, 1920. THREE FASCIANTING AND VALUABLE AFRICA REPORTS IN ONE ISSUE. Altogether 43 pages, including setkch maps. Plus photographic plates. Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. This is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. The captivating and comprehensive account of Major Athilll's remarkable journey through Abyssinia to the Nile is very detailed and beautifully illustrated with photographs, depicting a slave-trader returning from a successful raid, a native girl of Wotta, high-class Galla farmers, a native of Shoa Ghimirpa, and the Gojeb and Omo rivers, and accompanied by 2 sketch maps, one being an illustration of Major Athill's travel route from Maji to Mongalla. This exceptional account is 24 pages. An engaging account of Major Stevenson-Hamilton through part of the Dinka country east of Bahr-el-Gebel contains vivid and delightful description of various tribes inhabiting east of the Nile, containing a sketch map of the Dinka country and several amazing photographic illustrations showing a Dinka cattle Morah, Sudanese officers with nude Twi Dinkas, Duk Fadiat post, and a swamp near Bahr-El-Jebel. The account is 13 pages. The Colony and Protectorate of Kenya was part of the British Empire in Africa. It was established when the former East Africa Protectorate was transformed into a British crown colony in June 1920, the 9-page related report was published only several months after and contains much valuable information. . First Edition., Royal Geographical Society, 1920, Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1868 In German: Originalkarte von Central Abessinien. Zum Grossen Theil nach Unpublicirten Documenten. This map is a base of black and white with travel routes in red. From "Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anstalt uber Wichtige Neue Erforschungen auf dem Gessammtgebiete der Geographie von Dr. A. Petermann, 1868." Roughly: "Communications from Justus Perthes’ Geographical Institute Concerning Important New Studies in the Whole Field of Geography by Dr. Augustus Petermann, 1868." Condition notes: 9.8" wide X 14.2" high, in 4 panels (folded once in each direction) modestly toned, mild page waviness, 1 inch tears left and bottom margins, upper left margin crinkled., Justus Perthes, 1868, London: Royal Geographical Society, 1907. 14 pages, including photographic illustrations. Plus a fold-out color map, measuring approximately 11.5 x 10 inches (30 x 25cm). Original condition with blue wrappers, titles to front, and containing all the ads. Map with a minor repaired tear at fold, otherwise this is is a complete issue, seldom found in such good and original condition. The author, Major Powell-Cotton, was a notable traveller whose explorations were mainly for the purpose of game hunting and collecting important specimens for natural history museums. His first important expedition was in Western Tibet. He travelled in Somaliland in 1895-6, and afterwards in Abyssinia. In 1903 he travelled in Northern Uganda, and one year later in November 1904, he set on his journey of twenty-seven months in the equatorial forests and through the eastern part of the Congo, during which he made an extensive and important collections in natural history, among them include an okapi skin and skeleton, several specimens of the northern white rhinocero, six new mammals including a water-chevrotain, the Central African ratel, the dusky African tiger-cat, an elephant shrew, a black-white monkey, the Semliki red Buffalo, some 8000 lepidoptera, and a number of ethnological objects. In his captivating expedition account, he outlines his travel route and provides a fascinating description of the great Ituri forest and the inhabitants including the Pygmies, the Mongwana - the descendants of the Arab ivory and slave traders, and the Babila. He spends several months in Makala, one of the great rubber centres of the Congo, camps for a few weeks at the north-west corner of Lake Albert, at Katwi he passes a crater-lake where a considerable salt industry were caried on by the natives, visits floating village at Katanga, here he describes villagers to be a robust and well-built race, living on hippo-hunting and fishing, and trading salt from Katwi for sheep, he returns to Mombasa by the Toro-Entebbe route, and back home. Accompanied by a spectacular colour route map of the Congo State and Uganda, and illustrated with excellent photographs. . First Edition., Royal Geographical Society, 1907, Willliam Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1861. Colored margins and some divisions. Tribal designations, caravan routes. From Keith Johnston's General Atlas. From 31 to 45 deg. E. long.; from 7 to 18 deg. N. lat. 57x44cm, vg+.., Willliam Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1861, Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1868 In German: Die ersten Aufnahmen der Englischen Armee in Abessinien, Nach Offiziellen Mitteilungen. Nebst Ubersicht des Voraussichtlichen Kriegsschauplatzes bis Magdala. This map is a base of black, with Army travel routes in red and yellow. From "Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anstalt uber Wichtige Neue Erforschungen auf dem Gessammtgebiete der Geographie von Dr. A. Petermann, 1868." Roughly: "Communications from Justus Perthes’ Geographical Institute Concerning Important New Studies in the Whole Field of Geography by Dr. Augustus Petermann, 1868." Condition notes: 8.1" wide X 21.2" high, in 3 panels (accordion folded twice in the same direction) modestly toned, mild page waviness., Justus Perthes, 1868, 2011-03-26. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. 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xciii+379 pages 14 plates including frontispiece, 4 maps (2 in colour), appendices, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and … More...

xciii+379 pages 14 plates including frontispiece, 4 maps (2 in colour), appendices, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt sailing ship Victoria to front cover. Foreword by Jan Schuver. Second Series, volume 184. First edition.Juan Maria Schuver was born to a wealthy Amsterdam business family in the mid-nineteenth century. Established young as a travel writer and reporter, he decided to embark on scientific exploration. Leaving Cairo at the turn of 1880-1881 he proceeded up the Blue Nile, intending to find a new route through to the East African coast. This ambition was frustrated, mainly because of local political turbulence following the Mahdist challenge to the Sudanese government and internal stirrings in Abyssinia. As a result, Schuver remained for the better part of two years in the hills of the upper Blue Nile and the eastern watershed of the White Nile basin. He wrote lively accounts of these regions and his encounters with local people. He had to return to Khartoum at the end of 1882, but took a steamer up the White Nile in the middle of 1883. Somewhat impatiently, he ignored advice not to travel further southwards overland, and was murdered, a few days into western Dinka country. Schuver had planned books both in English and French on his explorations in the country "Between Two Niles". The only version which saw publication was an edited German translation, prepared by Petermann's Mitteilungen as a special issue in 1883. A combination of chance, the present editors' interest in the region, and the collaboration of the Schuver family led to the re-discovery of the original manuscripts. The present volume offers the full English accounts supplemented by passages from the author's French revision, and also draws on other drafts and letters, to give for the first time a full picture of Schuver's African travels.Condition:A near fine copy in like jacket., Hakluyt Society 1981 London, 1981, xciii+379 pages 14 plates including frontispiece, 4 maps (2 in colour), appendices, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt sailing ship Victoria to front cover. Foreword by Jan Schuver. Second Series, volume 184. First edition.Juan Maria Schuver was born to a wealthy Amsterdam business family in the mid-nineteenth century. Established young as a travel writer and reporter, he decided to embark on scientific exploration. Leaving Cairo at the turn of 1880-1881 he proceeded up the Blue Nile, intending to find a new route through to the East African coast. This ambition was frustrated, mainly because of local political turbulence following the Mahdist challenge to the Sudanese government and internal stirrings in Abyssinia. As a result, Schuver remained for the better part of two years in the hills of the upper Blue Nile and the eastern watershed of the White Nile basin. He wrote lively accounts of these regions and his encounters with local people. He had to return to Khartoum at the end of 1882, but took a steamer up the White Nile in the middle of 1883. Somewhat impatiently, he ignored advice not to travel further southwards overland, and was murdered, a few days into western Dinka country. Schuver had planned books both in English and French on his explorations in the country "Between Two Niles". The only version which saw publication was an edited German translation, prepared by Petermann's Mitteilungen as a special issue in 1883. A combination of chance, the present editors' interest in the region, and the collaboration of the Schuver family led to the re-discovery of the original manuscripts. The present volume offers the full English accounts supplemented by passages from the author's French revision, and also draws on other drafts and letters, to give for the first time a full picture of Schuver's African travels.Condition:A near fine copy in like jacket., Hakluyt Society, 1996, 2011-03-26. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence, excellent customer service!, 2011-03-26<

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