Archival Significance
A facsimile reprint of Eduard Mohr’s 1876 English-language account, one of the earliest published European travel narratives of the Victoria Falls region following David Livingstone’s own reports, reissued as part of the Rhodesiana Reprint Library over a century later.
Institutional Context
Reprinted by Books of Zimbabwe Publishing Co. (Pvt.) Ltd, Bulawayo, as Volume 28 of the Rhodesiana Reprint Library. The original was translated by N. D’Anvers and first published in London by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington in 1876.
Content Summary
Recounts Mohr’s nineteenth-century hunting and exploration journey to the Victoria Falls and the wider Zambesi and Matabeleland region.
Research Utility
Useful for researchers of nineteenth-century European travel writing and exploration narratives, and, through its reprint history, of how the Rhodesiana Reprint Library preserved and recirculated early colonial-era travel accounts a century later.
Abantu Archives Note
Held in-house.