The multi-talented English explorer Sir Richard Burton describes his three-year voyage throughout Central Africa from 1856 to 1859.
In two volumes..
Lake Regions of Central Africa is considered a prime example of an explorer\'s journal.
Burton\'s fascinating chronicle contains detailed geographic and socio-cultural information, as well as commentary which is often offensive but always interesting to scholars of colonial Africa.
In an attempt to interest both the scholar and the common reader, Burton mingles accounts of his own adventures with more scientific observations.
The multi-talented English explorer Sir Richard Burton describes his three-year voyage throughout Central Africa from 1856 to 1859