Johnston, Harry Hamilton THE KILIMA-NJARO EXPEDITION. A RECORD OF SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION IN EASTERN EQUATORIAL AFRICA. LONDON: KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, AND CO., 1886 FIRST EDITION, 8vo (222 x 135mm.) xvi, 572pp., 6 maps [2 in the text, 3 coloured, including 2 folding], 14 plates [1 photogravure], original pictorial red cloth, black endpapers, slipcase "[Johnston was] interested in the international problem of Africa and in the extension of British influence in that continent... [In 1882] Johnston penetrated alone, with great intrepidity and resource into the Congo basin, where in 1883 he won the friendship and encouragement of Sir Henry Morton Stanley... On the strength of his reports on his observations, Johnston was invited, in 1884, on behalf of the Royal Society, to undertake a scientific mission to explore Mount Kilimanjaro and its surroundings. The mission had also covert political objects... On this expedition he made valuable contributions to scientific knowledge, and effected treaties with the chiefs of local native tribes by which they accepted British protection" (DNB).
Johnston, Harry Hamilton THE KILIMA-NJARO EXPEDITION. A RECORD OF SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION IN EASTERN EQUATORIAL AFRICA. LONDON: KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, AND CO., 1886 FIRST EDITION, 8vo (222 x 135mm.) xvi, 572pp., 6 maps [2 in the text, 3 coloured, including 2 folding], 14 plates [1 photogravure], original pictorial red cloth, black endpapers, slipcase "[Johnston was] interested in the international problem of Africa and in the extension of British influence in that continent... [In 1882] Johnston penetrated alone, with great intrepidity and resource into the Congo basin, where in 1883 he won the friendship and encouragement of Sir Henry Morton Stanley... On the strength of his reports on his observations, Johnston was invited, in 1884, on behalf of the Royal Society, to undertake a scientific mission to explore Mount Kilimanjaro and its surroundings. The mission had also covert political objects... On this expedition he made valuable contributions to scientific knowledge, and effected treaties with the chiefs of local native tribes by which they accepted British protection" (DNB).
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