What led to the discovery of the source of the Nile /
Speke, John Hanning,1827-1864.
Speke, Benjamin,inscriber.StEdNL: RB.s.2941
Beaumont, William,former owner.StEdNL: RB.s.2941
Edinburgh ; London : William Blackwood and Sons,
MDCCCLXIV [1864].
Speke's account of his Somali and Lake Tanganyika expeditions in the 1850s, mostly originally published in Blackwood's Magazine.
With 32-page publisher's catalogue bound in at the end.
Plate of sketch map of Eastern Africa is bound as double-page spread.
In two parts each with a divisional title page.
With a half title.
Journal of adventures in Somaliland -- Journal of a cruise on the Tanganyika Lake.
Manuscript inscription by the author's brother Benjamin Speke at the head of the title page to William Beaumont. This is one of only twelve copies of Speke's work which includes an additional eight-page supplement, describing Speke's announcement of his discovery of the source of the Nile to the Royal Geographical Society, and also details of his feud with Sir Richard Burton. These pages were suppressed from the trade edition at the behest of Speke's family and his publisher, Blackwood's.
Scotland Edinburgh.