To the Gold Coast for gold. A personal narrative

Burton, Richard F, & Verney Lovett Cameron

Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1883

About this Item

First edition, small 8vo, 2 volumes, pp. xii, [2], 354, [2], 32 (Chatto & Windus ads); vi, 381, [3]; 2 folding maps, chromolithograph frontispiece in vol. II, a few illustrations in the text; original decorative red cloth stamped in red and black; spines soiled and spine extremities chipped; cloth a little soiled; good and sound. Penzer p. 106-7; Casada 65: "The work was an outgrowth of the trip Burton made with Cameron, who was the first European to cross central Africa (1873-75) to explore the Kong Mountains and search for gold in the valley of the Ancobra River . Burton wrote virtually all of the first volume and much of the second, although Cameron was an accomplished literary hand in his own right.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: To the Gold Coast for gold. A personal narrative
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London
• Publication Date: 1883
• Edition: First Edition.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Travel
  • Africa
  • Exploration