Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa;

£950 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

The first work to document the existence of the gorilla. ‘A noted if somewhat controversial travel-writer in his day … He was among the first white men to trek into gorilla territory, and some of his remarks and sketches were viewed as being fictional by “experts” of that era’ (Czech). Czech, p53; Hoskin p63.

• Year: 1861

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