Author: ANDERSSON, Charles John.
Title: Lake Ngami; or, explorations and discoveries, during four years' wanderings in the wilds of South Western Africa. Second edition.
Description: London, Hurst & Blackett, 1856.Contemporary half calf, with red morocco title label to spine. With large folding map and tinted frontispiece and 15 tinted lithographed plates. XVIII,546 pp.First edition published the same year. - 'The narrative describes two expeditions, one in which the author was accompanied by Francis Galton, which extended to Nangoro's Werft in the Ovampo country, and the other when he travelled by himself to Lake Ngami. The courage and endurance of the explorers were remarkable, and their sufferings from the death of water were at times very terrible. Few, if any, books give so full and complete an account of Namaqualand, Damaraland, and the Ovampo country and the description of the fauna of these countries is absolutely unequalled' (Mendelssohn I, p 41) .'A cornerstone book of African hunting in the mid-19th century. The London edition is more desirable with its large tinted plates and map (Czech p 6-7). - A fine copy.Gay 3128.

Keywords: Africa South Africa