LATITUDE ZERO - Tales of the Equator

New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers, 2001. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Printing. 8vo. (xiii) 258 pp. Quarter-bound in red on gray boards; lettered in gilt on the spine; headband; illustrated with black and white plates. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Antiquity: The Secrets of the Southern Seas. South America: The Unfortunate Conquistador: Orellana 1540 - 1545; The Mutinous Conquistador: Aguirre 1559 - 1561; The Man Who Met the Amazons: Quesada 1569 - 1572 - Berrio 1580 - 1590 - Sir Walter Raleigh 1595 - 1618 - Bernard O'Brien 1620 - 1634; Measuring the Earth: De La Condamine 1735 - 1744; The Penelope of Riobamba 1745 - 1770; The Nude Baroness: Elisa von Wagner 1932 - 1934. Africa: Joan of Arc of the Kongo 1483 - 1706; The Impossible Lakes: Burton - Speke - and Grant 1848 - 1858; The Nile Unveiled: Burton - Speke - and Grant 1860 - 1864; The Missing Lake: Baker 1864 - 1865; The Man-eaters: Carlo Piaggia 1863 - Georg Schweinfurth 1868; The Front Page: Henry Morton Stanley and Dr. Livingstone 1866 - 1877; The Conquest of Equatoria 1869 - 1873; The Calamities of Equatoria: Baker 1873 - Lord Gordon 1880 - 1885 - Stanley and Emin Bey 1887 - 1893; Heart of Darkness 1878 - 1905. Asia/Oceania: Maluku: Magellan and the Spice Islands 1519 - 1521; The White Raja: Sir James Brooke 1839 - 1868; Around the World in Thirty-five Hours: Krakatoa 1883; and Tusitala in Equator Town: Robert Louis Stevenson in the Gilbert Islands - 1889 - 1894; followed by an index..