Plates by Major Cc Michell (1 results)
VOYAGE OF OBSERVATION AMONG THE COLONIES OF WESTERN AFRICA, AND A CAMPAIGN IN KAFFIR-LAND IN 1835
James Edward Alexander, Captain 42nd Highlanders & illustrated with maps, plans & plates by Major CC Michell
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Condition: New. 2009 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1837). SB in two volumes xxii + 428 and xi + 352 pp. Maps and Plans & PlatesPublished Price £29.95 The author of this epic of early exploration, Capt. James Alexander, was the soldier-explorer who led an 1836 expedition, sponsored by the Government and the Royal Geographical…Society, into the interior of South West Africa (todayâs Namibia). Travelling by ox-wagons, his route lay north from Cape Town, across the Orange River into the interior and, running dangerously short of water, out at Walfisch Bay - a 4,000-mile trek through unexplored desert wilderness. His book is a compendium of early exploration, including observations of flora and fauna, and the native peoples in the area they travelled through. He also amassed a large collection of zoological and scientific specimens.
