Major A. St.H. Gibbons. AFRICA FROM NORTH TO SOUTH THROUGH MAROTSELAND. The author was in charge

The author was in charge of the 1898 to 1900 expedition to Marotseland. Aided by grants from the Royal Geographic Society, the British South Africa Chartered Company, and British Military Intelligence, he was able to map fairly accurately the areas of his travels. The object of the expedition were to determine the geographical limits of Lewanika's country, to define the Congo-Zambezi watershed, to discover the main source of the Zambezi, to make a hydrographical and ethnographical survey of Lewanika's territory, to study its resources and industrial possibilities, to ascertain how far the Zambezi and its affluents could be used as navigable waterways, and to furnish Cecil Rhodes with information relative to the selection of a route for the projected trans-continental railway - particularly with reference to the crossing of the Zambezi.

Gilt on dec. blue boards. top edge gilt. 276/297pp illustrated 8vo. linen backed folding maps in pockets of both volumes.

No inscriptions. sound copies. pages and edges tanned. rear hinge starting both volumes. soft at spine extremities. corners bumped, white markings to front of Volume 1. excellent maps, unmarked with no tears. overall fairly clean attractive set.

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