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Cameron, Verney Lovett - Across Africa
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| Schrijver: | Cameron, Verney Lovett |
| Titel: | Across Africa |
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| Uitgever: | Daldy, Isbister and Co, London 1877, first edition, 2 volumes |
| Bijzonderheid: | 8vo, contemporary half calf, rubbed and marked, marbled edges. xvi, 389; xii, 366 pages with numerous wood engraved plates, 4 facsimile letters (3 folding), folding map, folding map in pocket at rear of volume 1, minor spots. A nice set. |
| Prijs: | € 490,00 |
| Meer info | Cameron's experience in Africa led to his being selected to command an expedition sent by the Royal Geographical Society in 1873, to assist Dr Livingstone. He was also instructed to make independent explorations, guided by Livingstone's advice. Soon after the departure of the expedition from Zanzibar, Livingstone's servants were met bearing the dead body of their master. He reached Ujiji, on Lake Tanganyika, in February 1874, where he found and sent to England Livingstone's papers. Cameron determined the true form of the south part of the lake, and solved the question of its outlet by the discovery of the Lukuga river. From Tanganyika he struck westward to the Lualaba. This river Cameron rightly believed to be the main stream of the Congo. He then turned south-west. After tracing the Congo-Zambezi watershed for hundreds of miles he reached Bihe and finally arrived at the coast on November 28, 1875, being the first European to cross equatorial Africa from sea to sea. |
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