Author: GÖTZEN, GUSTAV ADOLF VON: Title: Durch Afrika von Ost nach West. Resultate und Begebenheiten einer Reise von der Deutsch-Ostafrikanischen Küste bis zur Kongomündung in den Jahren 1893/94. Zweite Auflage. Berlin 1899.
Description: . Folio. Pp. xiv, 426. With engraved frontispiece, two folding maps in pocket and many textual illustrations. Publisher's decorated cloth. Second edition (first 1895). Götzen was a German explorer and the first governor of German East Africa. He led this expedition through Rwanda and became the first European to visit Lake Kivu. The party encountered and climbed some of the Virunga Mountains, and later continued west through the Congolese jungle and eventually reached the Congo river. Henze II, 375.
Keywords: Africa, africa, afrika, african, afrique, east africa, travel, exploration, rwanda, congo
Price: EUR 280.00 = appr. US$ 304.32 Seller: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books
- Book number: 121032
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