8vo. xi, [2], 406 pp., frontis portrait, 3 b/w plates, 6 maps, original blue cloth in lightly faded d/w, gilt, published for The Hakluyt Society, Second Series No. CXXIII, Cambridge University Press, 1964.

Synopsis

This is the first of several volumes on the exploration of the Niger following its discovery by Mingo Park. It begins with the travels of Friedrich Hornemann and then leaps a quarter of a century to the great journey of Alexander Gordon Laing. The volume consists of an edited text of Hornemann’s journal of his travels from Cairo to Murzuk between 1797 and 1798 together with an introduction by Mr Bovill.