Travel, Exploration and Geography
https://digitalt.uib.no/handle/1956.2/2446
2024-03-28T13:49:12ZThe Wild Tribes of the Soudan: An Account of Travel and Sport chiefly in the Basé Country. Being personal experiences and adventures during three winters spent in the Soudan
https://digitalt.uib.no/handle/1956.2/2897
The Wild Tribes of the Soudan: An Account of Travel and Sport chiefly in the Basé Country. Being personal experiences and adventures during three winters spent in the Soudan
James, F. L.
First Edition, with a frontispiece from an etching, 5 other plates from etchings, 40 other full-page engraved plates mainly from woodcuts, and 3 maps (of which 2 are folding), lge. 8vo., pp. xx, 273, publisher’s pictorial cloth, gilt, signature of the author’s brother, W.D. James, on the half-title, and bookplate of Sir S.W. Baker on the front end-paper.; "Sir Samuel Baker wrote a short prefatory chapter, (on ‘The Political State of Khartoum and the Soudan’) in the second edition of this work, published in the following year, and the present copy was presumably presented to him by the author’s brother, in preparation for this.
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1883-01-01T00:00:00ZIn the Torrid Sudan
https://digitalt.uib.no/handle/1956.2/2894
In the Torrid Sudan
Tangye, H. Lincoln
First Edition, with a frontispiece, 32 other plates with illustrations from photographs, and a folding map, 8vo., pp. xii, 300, publisher’s cloth, with gilt vignette on upper board
1910-01-01T00:00:00ZMy Wanderings in the Soudan
https://digitalt.uib.no/handle/1956.2/2892
My Wanderings in the Soudan
Speedy, Cornelia Mary
First Edition, 2 vols., vol. I with a title-page vignette, 9 other text illustrations, and a folding map mounted on linen, vol. II with a title-page vignette and 9 other text illustrations, 8vo., pp. xvi, 239, x, 264, near contemporary half calf, the spines with 6 compartments decorated and ruled in gilt, marbled edges and end-papers, some light foxing, the emblem of the New South Wales Library of Parliament blocked in gilt on the spines and upper boards, an attractive copy of a rare item.; “...I am, I believe, with the exception of Lady Baker, the only lady who has as yet made a tour through the Soudan...My original wish was to go to Abyssinia–special interest regarding that country having been raised in my mind from Captain Speedy’s residence there many years before, his connection with it during the Expedition of 1867 and 1868 under Lord Napier of Magdala, and his subsequent guardianship of the late Prince Alamayu, son of Theodore, King John’s predecessor. I did not, however, get so far. Our plans resolved themselves...into a shooting tour through that part of Nubia known as the Eastern Soudan...From Suakin we followed the caravan track to Kassala, from which town we went to the river Settit, the most southerly point of our wanderings; and though we were within sight of the Abyssinian hills, we did not cross the border. I still, however, cherish a secret hope that the day may yet arrive when I shall find myself at the Court of King Johannes...since my husband has been again called to that country to pioneer that Mission recently sent to it under Sir William Hewett.” (From the preface). Speedy undertook her travels in 1878. For another contemporary account of the Eastern Sudan, and of the Hewett Mission, see: Wylde (A.B.) ‘83 to ‘87 in the Soudan, with an Account of Sir William Hewett’s Mission to King John of Abyssinia.
1884-01-01T00:00:00ZLife in the Soudan: Adventures amongst the tribes, and Travels in Egypt, in 1881 and 1882
https://digitalt.uib.no/handle/1956.2/2548
Life in the Soudan: Adventures amongst the tribes, and Travels in Egypt, in 1881 and 1882
Williams, Dr. Josiah
First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, and 6 other plates, 8vo., pp. [viii], 338, publisher’s pictorial cloth.
1884-01-01T00:00:00Z