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James Ginther Books,
Book Binding and Restoration LLC
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African Exploration and Travel
The challenges and danger that the early African explorers experienced is difficult to imagine. They persevered through unmapped territory peopled with often hostile native tribes still living in the Iron Age, and often facing disease and starvation.
Examine the photos carefully as they are an integral part of the description.
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Baker, Samuel. Albert Nyanza, the Great Basin of the Nile |
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1868 printing of 1866 first edition. Very good. 499 pages with index. Two maps and over 40 illustrations. Baker was in search of the source of the Nile in Central Africa. When he met Speke and Grant at Khartoum and heard they established Lake Victoria as the source of the White Nile, he continued on and discovered that the Albert Nyanza was the source of the Blue Nile. An amazing story of exploration and hunting in Central Africa. His "wife" accompanied him and saved his life! But that, as they say, is another story. |
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Burton, Richard. Lake Regions of Central Africa |
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1961 reprint of Burton's 1861 book describing his travels with Speke to find the source of the Nile, as depicted in the film "Mountains of the Moon". Burton could not continue with Speke to Lake Victoria and challenged Speke's assertion that it was the source of the Nile because he had not explored the entire perimeter of the lake. Very good in fair DJs and good slipcases. |
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Carpenter, Frank. From Uganda to the Cape |
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1925 printing of 1924 First Edition. Near fine. 261 pages. An interesting travelogue. |
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Mounteney-Jephson, A. Emin Pasha |
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1890 First Edition. A rare title and only one other deluxe edition offered online for $500. A companion volume to Stanley's In Darkest Africa. Jephson was sent by Stanley to contact Emin Pasha and he spent nine months with him. In rear pocket are a map of Equatoria and facsimile of letter from the Mahdi to Pasha demanding his surrender. |
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Roberts, John. The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone |
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1880. 382 pages. Illustrated. Very good. Foxing of title page and tissue guard, bumping of the head and tail of spine. New endpapers. An excellent introduction to and synopsis of the life of this great explorer and his achievements. |
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Stanley, H.M. In Darkest Africa |
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1891 Second Edition. Two volumes in original green cloth boards. Very good. Recased with new endpapers. Text is clean and tightly bound.
Vol 1: 547 pages w/appendix. 75 illustrations. "Rippling" of pages of appendix without stain. Repaired hole in spine cloth. Lacks map in pocket. Vol 2: 540 pages w/index and appendix. 73 illustrations. Gilt title on front cover a bit faded. "Rippling" of pages of Chapter index and list of illustrations without discoloration. Contains both maps in pocket as called for.
One of the great African adventure stories describing Stanley's campaign to rescue Emin Pasha (Dr. Eduard Schnitzer), the governor of Equatoria (present day Sudan), who was besieged by Mahdist zealots. Stanley lost about two-thirds of the expedition's members due to disease, starvation and desertion. Stanley wrote these books in 55 days. He included his officers' reports and conversations to provide a complete account of the expedition, perhaps anticipating the criticism that occurred later. |
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Stanley, H.M. Through the Dark Continent |
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1879 Second Edition. Vol. I Good minus. Re-cased with new endpapers. 1/4 inch of new cloth pieced in at head and tail of spine. Tightly bound. Discoloration at top of spine and front cover (see photos). Age toning of pages. Scattered handling marks. Signature on second blank paper. Five maps of Equatorial Africa drawn between the late seventeenth and late nineteenth centuries. 522 pages w/ index and 57 illustrations. Lacks map in pocket.
Vol. II Good. Stain on corner of plate and tissue guard opposite page 1 (Chapter 1). Stain does not impinge on illustration. Some age toning of pages. Photo of Stanley pasted on back of frontispiece (see photo). Crease of lower corner rear cover (see photo). 566 pages w/ appendices and index. 91 illustrations. Contains fold-out map of Livingstone Falls and two page map of Livingstone River and Stanley Falls. Lacks map in pocket.
Stanley's attempt to complete Livingstone's explorations. |
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Wiese, Carl. Expedition in East-Central Africa |
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1983 First English Language Edition. Orginally publishe in Portugese in 1891. Fine with very good dust jacket. 383 pages with index, four appendices. six page bibliography, 5 maps, and 23 illustrations. |
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