Juan Maria Schuver's Travels in North East Africa 1880-1883
by Schuver, Juan Maria, Edited By Wendy James
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: Hakluyt Society, 1996. Book. Illus. by 4 Maps and 14 Illustrations. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Schuver was a Dutch explorer, who went south from Cairo in 1880, seeking a new route to East Africa. The Mahdist revolt in Sudan forced him into the hills of the upper Blue Nile and the Eastern watershed of the White Nile. At the middle of 1883 he took a steamer up the White Nile. Ignoring advice not to travel further overland, he was murdered just a few days into western Dinka trbal country. An edited German edition was published in 1883, but the family provided the original manuscripts to the editors, Wendy James, Gerd Baumann and Douglas Johnson. This is the first editio in English, and a much fuller account, also drawing on Schuver letters and manuscripts, than the first German account. Several interesting appendices and an admirable 15 page bibliography. Slight rubs to the dustjacket, but no tears, protected in a clear, mylar sleeve..
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- Bookseller
- Craftsbury Antiquarian Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009059
- Title
- Juan Maria Schuver's Travels in North East Africa 1880-1883
- Author
- Schuver, Juan Maria, Edited By Wendy James
- Illustrator
- 4 Maps and 14 Illustrations
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hakluyt Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1996
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Travel, Nile River, Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, Africa
- Bookseller catalogs
- Africa, Sub-Saharan; Egypt;
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