This book is a detailed first-person account of three years of arduous travel by Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) between Zanzibar and Lake Tanganyika in search of the source of the Nile. Burton's journal entries document life in this region, including Arabs and the Eastern slave trade, safari life in the days of human porters and mules, and the flora and fauna he encountered.
- ISBN10 0486286185
- ISBN13 9780486286181
- Publish Date 11 July 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 February 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Dover Publications Inc.
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 576
- Language English