8vo (222 x 141 mm). 2 folding color maps (one folding into rear pocket, one laid in). (Several short tears to folds of maps, occasional spotting.) Publisher's original green pictorial cloth gilt, smooth spine, gilt-lettered and decorated, front cover with blind-stamped border and gilt figure, by Edmunds and Remnant with their ticket (hinges weak). 

 

FIRST EDITION of Grant’s account of his mission to find the source of the Nile with fellow Indian army officer, John Hanning Speke. "The two explorers and their porters now embarked on the 'long walk' on which Palmerston was later to remark and so provide Grant with the title of his book, A Walk across Africa" (DNB). Czech, p. 66 ("A monumental work of exploration").