1964 The Nile

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Colour Plates, First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

First UK edition. Illustrated with a large folding map, twenty colour plates, and one hundred and eighty-four photogravure plates. Collated complete. A book of photographs and text on the great river that is the Nile. Travelling through four thousand years of history and across four thousand miles of land. Written and illustrated by Eliot Elisofon, an American documentary photographer and photojournalist. With an introduction from Sir Laurens Jan van der Post, a South African Afrikaner writer, farmer, soldier, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer and conservationist.