A Picture of Exploration. First edition. 2nd issue in orange cloth. 2 vols. Folding tinted map, 12 chromoxylograph plates and woodcuts in text. 8vo. Cloth,worn frayed and soiled. Staining/foxing to versos largely of plates. Light marginal staining affecting fore-edges of some pages and plates. Sporadic foxing throughout. xvi, ii, 412; vi, ii, 468pp. Longman, Green et al.London, 1860.
A classic narrative on East Africa, in which Burton describes his journey from Pemba and Zanzibar to the western shore of Lake Tanganyika. Amongst his party was John Hanning Speke who Burton attempts to discredit from the outset, by stating in the Preface that he was no more than a subordinate, never having held the position of surveyor as he claimed on his return to England.Penzer, p65/66.
