The Source of the Nile. the Lake Regions of Central Africa

First published in 1860, this is Burton's narrative of the 1857-59 expedition from Zanzibar inland with John Hanning Speke, mounted to examine the lakes reported by Arab traders and, in the public mind, to settle the Nile's source. The party crosses Unyamwezi, suffers fever and desertion, and reaches Lake Tanganyika, which Burton describes at length, with notes on peoples, trade, and geography. Speke's separate sighting of the northern lake is recorded as a point of dispute. The book mixes itinerary, ethnography, and complaint. It is a travel narrative of exploration, not a later history of the Nile controversy.

Bound in pale brown cloth binding with a pastiche Victorian design in black and gold by David Eccles. Brown endleaves. Map loosely laid in. Black slipcase.