reblogged from The Bodleian’s Map Room Blog [16 July]
An unexpected phone call through to the Map Department recently proved to be the start of a little adventure that had a wonderful outcome….
… the original map of General Gordon’s journey from Suakim to Khartoum, 1874, a donation now at (MS) E4:1 (19).
Read the story of how this map came into the Bodleian collections here.