Tropical Africa.
New York: Scribner and Welford, 1889.
Price: $125.00
About the item
Second American edition. Six color fold-out maps (on 5 plates) and illustrations throughout text. [xii], 228 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original gilt-stamped red cloth. Front hinge repaired. Some spliting along folds of maps, though maps generally fine and bright. Contemporary owner's signature to half-title. Very good.
Item #234958
In June 1883, "Drummond set out on a visit to the southern equatorial region of Africa. His commission was to make a scientific, and especially geological, exploration of the district between lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika for the African Lakes Company. Although he failed to reach Lake Tanganyika he subsequently drew from his journal to publish Tropical Africa (1888), in which he argued that British involvement in the region was essential to put down the slave trade. So powerful was his animus against the trade that he looked forward to the extinction of the elephant, whose ivory was the reason for the presence of the Arab slavers" (ODNB).
