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189255878Boston: Arena London: Saxon 1892. First Edition. 8vo pp. viii 435. With one frontis portrait one map and 25 full page plates from photos and many textual illustrations. Bound in red cloth stamped in gilt spine little dust soiled a very good copy. Robinson p. 27: "must be one of the most colourful characters in the history of African exploration". Middleton Victorian Lady Travellers pp. 90-103. May French-Sheldon was the first woman to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1892 because of her work on the previously unexplored Lake Chala. This is an account of a safari led by her in 1891 from Mombasa to the Masai lands beyond Mount Kilimanjaro and back. Arena, London: Saxon unknown books