Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life, Travel and Exploration (Thomas Baines)

Africana Book Society .Africana Reprint Library Volume Three. Facsimile reproduction of the 1876 edition with new foreword and case design adapted from the cover of the 1868-71 serialised version in which the work first appeared, 1975, 731 pages, illustrated, condition: as new.

A wide-ranging manual of instruction on the art of surviving in and enjoying the great outdoors of the 19th century. Practical living for the aspirant explorer of a hundred years ago. Illustrated with many wood-engravings by Baines.

Thomas Baines (1820   1875) was an artist and explorer of  southern Africa and Australia. In 1858 Baines accompanied David Livingstone along the Zambezi, and was one of the first white men to view Victoria Falls. In 1869 Baines led one of the first gold prospecting expeditions to Mashonaland in what later became Rhodesia. From 1861 to 1862 Baines and James Chapman undertook an expedition to South West Africa. Chapman's Travels in the Interior of South Africa (1868) and Baines' Explorations in South-West Africa (1864), provide a rare account of different perspectives on the same trip. This was the first expedition during which extensive use was made of both photography and painting, and in addition both men kept journals in which, amongst other things, they commented on their own and each other's practice.