New Light on Dark Africa: being the narrative of the German Emin Pasha expedition, its journeyings and adventures among the native tribes of Eastern Equatorial Africa, the Gallas, Massals, Wasukuma, etc., etc., on the Lake Baringo and the Victoria Nyanza

Large 8vo original pictorial cloth rebacked. Library bookplate. Plates and title blind stamped. Overall nice clean copy. This is the first English edition and is illustrated with 32 full-page plates along with other illustrations in the text. Contains a folding lithographed map in the later pocket at the end. A narrative of the German expedition to aid Amin Pasha who held the only European enclave in the southern Sudan, under assault by the Mahdi’s insurrection. Stanley’s expedition to bring help had failed. Peters also explored the Tana river, but wasn’t the first, and according to some he didn’t add a lot of knowledge about the area. Also, his efforts to secure influence in the interior didn’t go over to well with the British, but they did serve to spur the Brit’s on in their it explorations of Kenya and Uganda.