SULTAN TO SULTAN; Adventures among the Masai and other tribes of East Africa
Boston: Arena, London: Saxon, 1892. First Edition. 8vo, pp. (viii), 435. With one frontis portrait, one map and 25 full page plates (from photos) and many textual illustrations. Bound in red cloth stamped in gilt, spine little dust soiled, a very good copy. Robinson p. 27: "must be one of the most colourful characters in the history of African exploration". Middleton, Victorian Lady Travellers, pp. 90-103. Item #55878
May French-Sheldon was the first woman to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1892 because of her work on the previously unexplored Lake Chala. This is an account of a safari led by her in 1891 from Mombasa to the Masai lands beyond Mount Kilimanjaro and back.
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