1867 Journey to Ashango-Land Paul DuChaillu Victorian Era Exploration in Africa

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1867 Journey to Ashango-Land Paul DuChaillu Victorian Era Exploration in Africa :
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A JOURNEY TO ASHANGO-LAND

AND FURTHER PENETRATION INTO EQUATORIAL AFRICA

BY PAUL B. DUCHAILLU

A classic of Victorian exploration

Published London, John Murray, 1867. First Edition.

8vo (230 x 145 mm), pp. xxiv, 501, [1], 32 pp publisher’s (Mr Murray’s works) catalogue.

19 plates in very good condition and a folding map with some light foxing; includes title-page vignette and three full-page illustrations in the text.

Original purple cloth boards featuring vignette stamped in gilt on upper cover and gilt titles. Some very minor marks to the covers; head and heel of spine reinforced sympathetically. New end papers. No inscriptions, not ex-library.

In 1863 Du Chaillu returned to Gabon, did a little trading, assembled a caravan well equipped with scientific instruments and cameras, and hired seventy porters and a few guides. He met with Massangou people (in what he called Ashango) 200 miles southeast of the Gabon River and visited a pygmy settlement nearby. When one of his men accidentally shot two Massangous, his party was forced to abandon many supplies and flee for their lives. He was wounded by two poisoned arrows.

Back in England in 1865, Du Chaillu lectured successfully and prepared A journey to Ashango-Land . . . for publication in 1867.