Junker

1892 · réf. elala145 — London: Chapman And Hall Ltd. 1892. 1892. 8vo. pp. viii 586. with half-title. numerous text illus. many full-page incl. frontis. 2 folding partly coloured maps. original pictorial cloth some fraying to spine ends & joints. prize presentation inscription. First Edition of the English Translation by A.H.Keane. The final volume in Junker’s trilogy describing his explorations in Africa. Junker "remained almost continuously in eastern Equatorial Africa from 1875 to 1886 making first Khartum and afterwards Lado the base of his expeditions. Junker was a leisurely traveller and a careful observer; his main object was the study the peoples with whom he came into contact and to collect specimens of plants and animals…Perhaps the greatest service he rendered to geographical science was his investigation of the Nile-Congo watershed when he successfully combated Georg Schweinfurth’s hydrographical theories and established the identity of the Welle and Ubangi….In 1887 he received the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society. As an explorer Junker is entitled to high rank his ethnographical observations in the Niam-Niam Azandeh country being especially valuable." Encyc. Britan. 11th Edn. Hosken p. 111. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. London: Chapman And Hall, Ltd., 1892. hardcover