Description: Hardcover. 12mo. Published by Harper and Brothers, Franklin Square, New York. 1871. viii, 314 pgs. Illustrated with black and white illustrations. Bound in decorated cloth with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (spine is faded, spine ends lightly bumped and chipped). Previous owner's bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The fifth classic study of African wildlife, culture, and native tribes as they existed in the mid-1800s, written by the first European explorer to confirm the existence of gorillas and African pygmies. Following on from his “My Apingi Kingdom,” “Stories of the Gorilla Country,” “Wild Life Under the Equator,” and “Lost in the Jungle,” adventurer Paul du Chaillu describes in vivid detail African life before the advent of European colonization, and the astonishing practices, culture, and environment which existed at that time. This work is particularly valuable as it shows, without prejudice or favor, Africa as it was, as seen by one of the first European explorers to set foot inside the interior of the Dark Continent. This last book of his adventures in Equatorial Africa tells of the second of his two great discoveries: that of the Pygmy people of Africa, previously only mentioned in the work of Herodotus and thought to be mythological. It also relates his astonishing endeavors to reach the Nile. Not only did that expedition fail, but his presence generated enmity amongst many tribes, who quite falsely believed that he had brought sickness and death to the natives. Shot through the stomach with a poisoned arrow, Du Chaillu barely escaped this expedition alive, and never returned to Africa after it. Paul Du Chaillu 1st Ed 1871 Africa The Country of the Dwarfs Pygmy Society Congo Click images to enlarge Description Up For Sale Today is The Country of the Dwarfs by Paul Du Chaillu Hardcover. 12mo. Published by Harper and Brothers, Franklin Square, New York. 1871. viii, 314 pgs. Illustrated with black and white illustrations. Bound in decorated cloth with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (spine is faded, spine ends lightly bumped and chipped). Previous owner's bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The fifth classic study of African wildlife, culture, and native tribes as they existed in the mid-1800s, written by the first European explorer to confirm the existence of gorillas and African pygmies. Following on from his “My Apingi Kingdom,” “Stories of the Gorilla Country,” “Wild Life Under the Equator,” and “Lost in the Jungle,” adventurer Paul du Chaillu describes in vivid detail African life before the advent of European colonization, and the astonishing practices, culture, and environment which existed at that time. This work is particularly valuable as it shows, without prejudice or favor, Africa as it was, as seen by one of the first European explorers to set foot inside the interior of the Dark Continent. This last book of his adventures in Equatorial Africa tells of the second of his two great discoveries: that of the Pygmy people of Africa, previously only mentioned in the work of Herodotus and thought to be mythological. It also relates his astonishing endeavors to reach the Nile. Not only did that expedition fail, but his presence generated enmity amongst many tribes, who quite falsely believed that he had brought sickness and death to the natives. Shot through the stomach with a poisoned arrow, Du Chaillu barely escaped this expedition alive, and never returned to Africa after it. FROM WIKIPEDIA: Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (July 31, 1831 (disputed) – April 29, 1903) was a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas, and later the Pygmy people of central Africa. He later researched the prehistory of Scandinavia. He was sent in 1855 by the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia on an African expedition. Until 1859 he explored the regions of West Africa in the neighborhood of the equator, gaining considerable knowledge of the delta of the Ogowe River and the estuary of the Gabon. During his travels from 1856 to 1859 he observed numerous gorillas, known to non-locals in prior centuries only from an unreliable report by Hanno the Navigator of Carthage in the 5th century BC, and known to scientists in the preceding years only by a few skeletons. He brought back dead specimens, and presented himself as the first white person to have seen them. A subsequent expedition, from 1863 to 1865, enabled him to confirm the accounts given by the ancients of a pygmy people inhabiting the African forests. Du Chaillu sold his hunted gorillas to the Natural History Museum in London and his "cannibal skulls" to other European collections. (A fine cased group shot by du Chaillu may be seen in Ipswich Museum in Suffolk, England.) Narratives of both expeditions were published, in 1861 and 1867 respectively, under the titles Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa, with Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chace of the Gorilla, Crocodile, and other Animals; and A Journey to Ashango-land, and further penetration into Equatorial Africa. While in Ashango Land in 1865 he was elected King of the Apingi tribe. At the time, he was in great demand on the public lecture circuits of New York, London, and Paris. Although t were initial challenges of his accounts, they came be accepted, although Encyclopedia Britannica speculated that "possibly some of the adventures he described as happening to himself were reproductions of the hunting stories of natives." 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Author: Paul Du Chaillu
Binding: Hardcover
Character Family: Country of the Dwarfs; Pygmies
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Language: English
Original/Facsimile: Original
Place of Publication: Franklin Square, New York
Publisher: Harper and Brothers
Region: North America
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated, Country of the Dwarfs; Pygmies, Africa, Travels in the Congo, Paul Du Chaillu, Victorian African Travel, Equitorial Africa
Subject: Exploration & Travel
Topic: Africa
Year Printed: 1871
