[Rarebooks] fa: AMONG SWAMPS AND GIANTS IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA - H. H. Austin - 1902

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Major Herbert H. Austin: Among Swamps and Giants in Equatorial Africa. An Account of Surveys and Adventures in the Southern Sudan and British East Africa. London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1902. First edition; thick 8vo (22 cm) in modern quarter morocco, spine titles in gilt, new endpapers; xii + 354 pp.; with photographic plates and 2 folding maps.

Account of the author's survey of the Sobat Region in what is now South Sudan, as well as his journey from Omdurman to Mobasa via Lake Rudolf. With maps of The Sobat River and Part of the Blue Nile and the Land Journey from Nasser to the Uganda Railway at Lake Nakuro. The thick paper used for the text presumably contains a high level of wood pulp, causing various degrees of foxing throughout; otherwise the book is quite clean and fresh, firmly and smartly bound.