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Harris, Walter B.
Tafilet: The Narrative of a Journey of Exploration in the Atlas Mountains and the Oases of North-West Africa.
Publisher: William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London;
Date of Publication: 1895
Stock Code: 15432
First edition. Octavo, pp., xii, 386, 32 (publisher’s catalogue), plus tissue-guarded frontispiece 7 plates, 2 maps, and 30 in-text illustrations after drawings by the author. Collated and complete. Publisher’s original teal cloth; titled in gilt to spine and in black to upper board; bookplate of G. H. Selous dated 1931 to front free end-paper. Annotated throughout by Selous in pencil with observations relating to his experience of the region in English and Arabic. Extremities a touch rubbed; corners bumped; minor loss to spine-tips; binding otherwise strong and square. Internally clean (save annotations discussed above) and in good order. A very good or better copy. An account of the author’s 1893 expedition to the previously largely inaccessible Tafilet oasis. One of the largest oases in the world, Tafilet’s location over the Atlas mountains made journeys there long and dangerous. The former owner of this copy, G. H. Selous, was a diplomat and Arabist who wrote ‘Appointment to Fez’ in 1956. £125.00