1912 Boyd Alexander's Last Journey With a Memoir

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First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition. Illustrated with thirty-three plates and two maps, one of which is folding. Collated and complete. The diary of Lieutenant Boyd Alexander's last expedition through Africa, which began in Victoria and continued on the Cameroon coast, through Nyeri and French Equatorial Africa. This journey ended with a dispute with a local tribe near Wadai and Nyeri, resulting in Alexander's death. His body was later recovered by French soldiers. Including a memoir by Boyd Alexander's brother, Herbert Alexander.