READE (W. Windwood).

Savage Africa:

Being a Narrative of a Tour in Equatorial, South-Western and North-Western Africa; with notes on the habits of the gorilla, on the existence of unicorns and tailed men; on the slave trade; on the origin, character and capabilities of the negro and on the future of civilization of Western Africa.Second edition. Frontispiece, folding map & 8 plates. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt, blindstamped, lightly sunned. xv, 587pp. London, Smith, Elder & Co, 1864.

£400.00

Traveller, novelist and controversialist: Reade’s first trip to Africa was prompted by the 1861 publication of du Chaillu’s theories on the gorilla as being an aggressive, powerful animal. Reade however spent five months in Gabon and produced evidence to the contrary, thereby forging his own reputation.

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