![[Item #61373] Through Masai Land: A Journey of Exploration Among the Snowclad Volcanic Mountains and Strange Tribes of Eastern Equatorial Africa. Being the Narrative of the Royal Geographical Society's Expedition to Mount Kenia and Lake Victoria Nyanza, 1883-1884. Joseph THOMSON.](https://www.lornebair.com/pictures/61373.jpg?v=1678754151)
Through Masai Land: A Journey of Exploration Among the Snowclad Volcanic Mountains and Strange Tribes of Eastern Equatorial Africa. Being the Narrative of the Royal Geographical Society's Expedition to Mount Kenia and Lake Victoria Nyanza, 1883-1884
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885. First American Edition. First printing. Brown cloth stamped in black and gilt; black coated endpapers; xii,583,[1]pp; publisher's ad on half-title verso; frontispiece and 14 black and white plates, 2 color folding maps at rear, in-text wood engravings. Bookplate of Howard Fuguet to front pastedown. Clean and unfoxed but rubbed at edges, with tears to cloth at head and tail, shaken, two gatherings pulled and just holding, two leaves of prelims neatly detached: complete and Good.
"One of the great Africa travel epics, this title details the author's trek from the coast toward Mt. Kilimanjaro, then through Masai Land. Near Lake Chala, he bagged several rhinoceros and buffalo in close encounters, and buffalo again in the Lykipia Forest. One of the excellent engravings depicts Thomson thrown into the air by a charging bull..." CZECH p.164. 61373.
Price: $500.00
