The first full account of Schuver's travels transcribed from rediscovered manuscripts in English, supplemented with passages originally in French. The appendices include transcripts of related letters and other papers.
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The first full account of Schuver's travels transcribed from rediscovered manuscripts in English, supplemented with passages originally in French. The appendices include transcripts of related letters and other papers.
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Fine in Fine jacket. pp. 392. 2539 shelf. Unread. Bright gold-stamped embossed pictorial sky blue cloth. No names, clean text. Unblemished dust jacket. With a few illus. Index.
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As New in Near Fine jacket. London: Hakluyt Society. 1996. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, Second Series, vol. 184. Hardcover. First Edition. Blue cloth over boards with gil t titles to spine and vignette of the sailing ship Victoria on front board. As New book in a Near Fine jacket. Mild rubbing/edgewear to jacket with an eighth-inch tear at the spine head. Not from a library. No remainder mark. cvii + 392 pages, 15 illustrations, 4 maps (2 in color). Juan Maria Schuver was born to a wealthy Amsterdam business family in the mid-19th century. Established at a young age as a travel writer and reporter, he decided to embark on scientific exploration. Leaving Cairo at the turn of 1880-1881 he proceeded up the Blue Nile, intending to find a new route through to the East African coast. This ambition was frustrated, mainly because of local political turbulence following the Mahdist challenge to the Sudanese government and internal stirrings in Abyssinia. As a result, Schuver remained for the better part of two years in the hills of the upper Blue Nile and the eastern watershed of the White Nile basin. He wrote lively accounts of these regions and his encounters with the local people. He had to return to Khartoum at the end of 1882, but took a steamer up the White Nile in the middle of 1883. He ignored advice not to travel further southwards overland and was murdered a few days into western Dinka country. Schuver had planned books in both English and French on his explorations in the country 'Between the Two Niles'. The only version which saw publication was an edited German translation, prepared by Petermann's Mitteilungen as a special issue in 1883.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Jacket a little rubbed. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat--a sound and handsome copy.
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Illustrated by B&W and Color Plates. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 090418045X. DJ shows light edge wear and scuffing, bottom back corner bumped; DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. A bright, solid book; Hakluyt Society. Second Series, No 184; 1.25 x 8.75 x 5.75 Inches; 392 pages; "Juan Maria Schuver was born to a wealthy Amsterdam family in the mid-nineteenth century. Established young as a travel writer and reporter, he decided to embark on scientific exploration. Leaving Cairo at the turn of 1880-1881 he proceededup the Blue Nile, intending to find a new route to the East African coast." He was killed in Dinka territory while on this expedition. "The present volume offers the full English accounts supplemented by passages from the author's French revisions, and also draws on other drafts and letters to give for the first time a full picture of Schuver's African travels."
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ jacket. Book Minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with black and white drawings, photographs and maps.
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New. 392pp, 18 figures, maps & illustrations. New. Schuver travelled up the Blue Nile in 1880 in order to find a new route to the East African coast, spent two years in the hills of the upper Blue Nile and the eastern watershed of the White Nile, but was murdered when travelling into Dinka country. This is the first English account of his travels, the only other being an edited German version in 1883.
