Samuel Baker LES AFFLUENTS DU NIL DABYSSINIE 1867 première édition britannique achat AFRIQUE

1867 first London edition published by Macmillan.Leather shows age and wear. Title-page top trimmed (likely to remove former owner inscription). Folding map with a couple short rips.

This is one of the most exciting accounts of true exploration and adventure ever published.

Baker and his young wife, whom he purportedly stole from a slave auction in the Ottoman Empire when he was not the winning bidder, for an entire year explored the many tributaries of the Nile and learned Arabic in preparation for exploring for the source of the Nile. The Bakers' subsequent Nile explorations, and meeting John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant on their way back from discovering the source of the Nile, is covered in Baker's THE ALBERT N'YANZA, which was published in 1866 even though the events occurred after the events of THE NILE TRIBUTARIES (published a year later in 1867).