In this two-volume work, published in 1860, British explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-90) recounts his journey around the lakes of present-day Tanzania. In Volume 1 Burton begins in Zanzibar before landing up in Unyamwezi, 'the far-famed land over the moon'.
The famous British explorer's 1860 account of a journey through Zanzibar and the lake region of eastern Africa (present-day Tanzania).