Savage Africa:

£400 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Traveller, novelist and controversialist: Reade’s first trip to Africa was prompted by the 1861 publication of du Chaillu’s theories on the gorilla as being an aggressive, powerful animal. Reade however spent five months in Gabon and produced evidence to the contrary, thereby forging his own reputation.

• Year: 1864

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