A Picture of Exploration.
First edition. Issue unknown. 2 volumes. Folding map (this slightly frayed at head and with short repair on verso), 12 chromoxylograph plates (stain to the frontispiece plate in the first volume, affecting the verso more than it does the image), with further illustrations in the text. 8vo. In a modern binding of light brown buckram xvii, 412; vii, 468pp. Longman, Green…London, 1860.
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.
