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Monson, Ronald A. Across Africa on Foot
London Elkin Mathews & Marrot 1936 First Hard Cover Good No Jacket J. Hunter Wilson (photos)
xiv, 386 pp. Orange cloth boards a little worn and stained. Edges of text block foxed, scuffed and soiled. Occasional light foxing to pages, including plates. Otherwise unmarked and solidly bound. Illustrated with five b/w maps in the text and over 80 photos in plates. "When, at the hour of eleven o'clock on the morning of December 21st, 1929, James Hunter Wilson, AAIS, accountant, of Johannesburg, and myself, journalist, of Perth, Western Australia -- both clad in weather-worn khaki, heavy field boots, and solar topees, strode across the Kasr el Nil Bridge, that spans the Nile at Cairo, and headed down the Shari Kubri Kasr-el-Nil, bound for the heart of the City, with an ebony-skinned native of Central Africa, round-eyed and amazed at the flying traffic, padding at our heels, a fresh chapter in the story of Cape to Cairo was closed. For the first time the journey, of 7,628 miles, had been done on foot...."
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