Across East African Glaciers - an account of the first ascent of Kilimanjaro

Hans Meyer (1858-1929), son of bookseller-turned-publisher Herrmann Julius Meyer, built his reputation as one of the most famous explorers and mountaineers of his time, especially on travels to German East Africa. Meyer's celebrated narrative of his successful ascent of Kilimanjaro's Kibo volcano in 1889 (the first to be documented), was originally published as Ostafrikanische Gletscherfahrten: Forschungsreisen im Kilimandscharo-Gebiet in 1890. The ascent and Meyer's account both attracted international interest, and Meyer gave his paper 'Ascent to the Summit of Kilima-njaro' to the Royal Geographical Society of London on 14 April 1890. This English edition appeared the year after the German, and was translated by E. Harris Smith Calder, who, as 'Miss E. Harris-Smith', had co-written Ulu, an African romance, a novel set on the slopes of Kilimanjaro and published in 1888. Translated from the German by E.H.S. Calder.

Hardcover. English. George Philip & Son, London and Liverpool. 1891 First English Edition. 404 & Xiii pp. mounted colour-printed frontispiece after E.T. Compton, 12 heliogravure plates by H. Riffarth after Compton, 8 mounted photographic plates after Meyer, 3 folding lithographic maps, several wood engravings within text.. Original leather spine re-attached and rebacked. Foxing in prelims and at rear otherwise mostly clean text block. Book No: 2504730