Where Giants Trod: The Saga of Kenya’s Desert Lake.

BROWN, Monty. Foreword by Vivian Fuchs.

$150.00

Item Number: 110678

London: Quiller Press, 1989.

Special limited edition of Brown’s elaborately illustrated history of Kenya’s northern desert region and the 13 expeditions to Lake Rudolf. Quarto, original publisher’s three quarters pebbled morocco over leatherette boards, marbled endpapers, with 75 color and 50 black and white illustrations, folding map in pocket affixed to rear pastedown. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author on the half-title page, this is number 49. In fine condition.

The first published full chronicle of Kenya's northern desert region, Brown's Where Giants Trod includes beautifully illustrated and well-researched sections on the area's prehistory, the background on the indigenous tribes living in the area and a lengthy account of the thirteen expeditions to Lake Rudoloph/Turkana.