1832 Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Course and Termination of the Niger; with a Narrative of a Voyage Down that River to its Termination (The Family Library No. XXVIII)

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition of this work. Complete in three volumes. 

Published for John Murray's 'Family Library', being No. XXVIII.

In the publisher's cloth-backed boards.

Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume, two maps to Vol. I (one folding), three plates and one page of advertisements to Vol. II, and one further plate to Vol. III. Collated, complete. 

The British government sent Richard Lander and his brother, John, to explore more of the lower Niger River in 1830 (following Richard's prior travels in West Africa), and they were able to prove that the Niger flows through many mouths into the Bight of Benin. They found the source, route and mouths of the Niger River, that up to then had been unmapped. Within the same expedition, the brothers were kidnapped by the locals at Aboh, with a large ransom demanded by the local king Obi Ossai of Aboh kingdom before they could be granted safe passage back to a British ship. This setback and other impressions of the local people are vividly depicted in this fascinating three-volume account.