The Nile Basin Leather-Bound The Club's Silver Sailfish Derby

The Club's Silver Sailfish Derby (f

Illustrated by Gordon Allen and with a Foreword by Kay Evans

did but little to still the voices of the wilderness that were for ever whispering to me of far-away game-haunted mountains and forests

The swiveling

Patterson's account of the lions' reign of terror and his own attempts to kill them is the stuff of great adventure

The Nile Basin Leather-Bound The Club's Silver Sailfish DerbySir Richard F. Burton, The Nile Basin. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1864. iv, 195 pages. First edition in original buckram binding. Spine and corners bumped and gilt of title on spine a bit faded. Internally sound. Map. Far more obscure than the other Burton items on East Africa and the search for the Nile sources, this is in effect a bitter diatribe aimed at John Hanning Speke, and the latter portion of the book is actually a concerted attack on Speke