MUSGRAVE, George C.
To Kumassi with Scott. A Description of a Journey from Liverpool to Kumassi with the Ashanti Expedition, 1895-6 … London, Wightman & Co., 1896.
8vo, pp. vi, 216, [1], [6, advertisements], [1, blank]; with portrait frontispiece, sixteen plates (one map, sketches and black and white photographs) and one sketch within text; a very good copy with one minor mark to frontispiece and a small tear to page 207; bound in red cloth with pictorial endpapers, gilt lettering to upper cover and spine; minor wear to head and tail of spine, spine sunned; inscription of ‘Charles & Mary’ on flyleaf.
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To Kumassi with Scott. A Description of a Journey from Liverpool to Kumassi with the Ashanti Expedition, 1895-6 …
First edition of the author’s account of the 1895-6 Ashanti Expedition including a description of the perilous 140-mile march through the jungle to Kumassi. ‘The 1895-6 Expedition to Ashanti took place at a time when the British Empire was in a ferment; wars and rumours of wars abounded on all sides. Excitement ran high, and in the midst of the turmoil, the operations in West Africa were forgotten or put aside for matters of more pressing import. Newspapers were full; the international troubles caused much pressure on their space, and little beyond brief telegrams on the movements of the force, was published; therefore, a more comprehensive account of the expedition will be of interest to many’ (p. iii).