1976 "First American Edition" stated; Houghton Mifflin Company publishers, Boston; hardbound; very good condition with unmarked pages; dust jacket very good with minimal wear.
 
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This is the true story of a handful of obsessed explorers who fought man and nature to find and open the mighty, mysterious Niger River. "A magnificent book", raved the San Francisco Examiner when the book was first published in 1976. Pulitzer Prize-winner Sanche de Gramont has written an epic history with a racing pulse.  Sixteen page sepia photos and maps.