The Nile Basin and Captain Speke's Discovery of the Source of the Nile, by James MacQueen
London: Frank Cass, 1967. Hardcover. 3 maps, xxxvii, iv, [5]-195p. Green cloth-backed boards. dj. 21cm. Jacket foxed and rather worn. Reprint of the London first edition of 1864 with the addition of a lengthy new Introduction by Robert O. Collins. Burton included M'Queen's highly partisan and ill-founded attack on Speke to bolster Burton's own efforts to discredit his former companion. Includes a lengthy preface by Burton (pp. 5-30). Very Good / Good. Item #79853
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