Author

AUSTIN, Major H[erbert] H[enry]

Title

Among swamps and giants in equatorial Africa.
An account of surveys and adventures in the southern Sudan and British East Africa.

Published, Date

C. Arthur Pearson, London1902.

Description

First edition. 8vo., xii, 354pp,. portrait frontispiece and thirty-one plates, two folding maps. Clean tear to one map closed, light foxing, original blue cloth gilt, gilt roundel with gilt portrait to upper cover, a very good copy.

Note

"An excellent work of exploration and adventure" (Czech). Following the suppression of Mahdism at Omdurman, Austin, a well regarded young officer who had been serving in Uganda, was employed in carrying out two important surveying expeditions. He was to penetrate and map "those unexplored regions that lie between the Egyptian and Abyssinian boundaries." The first route took him through the Sobat region, from Fashoda on the White Nile to Goré at the far extent of the Sobat River; the second from Omdurman to Mombasa via Lake Rudolph. Austin's first book and an elusive one.

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Stock Number

82935