Author: Baker, Sir Samuel W.
Title: THE NILE TRIBUTARIES OF ABYSSINIA, And the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs.
Description: Macmillan and Co., 1867. 1st Ed. Thick 8vo. xxii + [i] + 596pp. Port. frontis., 22 plates, 2 maps including 1 folding. Light browning, modern e.ps., rebound with original gilt ills. cloth laid down to boards and spine, signs of wear and creasing to original cloth. ¶ D.N.B. ‘A record of Baker's preliminary journey, in the course of which he mastered Arabic and acquired the use of astronomical instruments. 'The value of ... the observations proving the Nile sediment to be due to the Abyssinian tributaries was publicly recognised by Sir Roderick Murchison, President of the R.G.S.’

Keywords: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL; AFRICA


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