New edition, edited with Biographical Introduction and Explanatory Index by the Rev J G Wood. 520pp, including Index, plus publisher's catalogue. Dark green cloth covered boards, a litttle worn to the edges of the spine, with impressed black ornament to the front, and gilt title and gilt pelican to the spine. 100 engraved illustrations in the text. Previous owner's name faintly to the title page, a little loss to the top margin of one page, one illustration has been traced through to the previous page, otherwise internally clean. The classic account of the travels of a Victorian naturalist.