last work was the editing of the personal adventure narrative of the Master Mariner James Choyce, who had sailed as a teenager in 1797 aboard a whaler to the Pacific Ocean. Choyce's narrative covering 26 years of seafaring life is one of the earliest works of an Englishman's experiences in South America. Cameron visited the Euphrates valley in 1878–1879 in connection with a proposed railway to the Persian Gulf, and accompanied Sir Richard Burton in his West African journey of 1882. At the Gold Coast Cameron surveyed the Tarkwa region, and he was joint author with Burton of To the Gold Coast for Gold (1883). In the 1880s he published several books for boys emulating his sister-in-law Mrs. Lovett Cameron who wrote romantic fiction. He was killed, near Leighton Buzzard, by a fall from horseback when returning from hunting in 1894. He had married Amy, the daughter of William Morris of Jamaica. A second edition of Across Africa, with new matter and corrected maps, appeared in 1885. A summary of Cameron's great journey, from his own pen, appears in Dr Robert Brown's The Story of Africa, vol. II, pp. 266–279 (London, 1893). Across Africa was republished in 2005. Works The Cruise of the "Black Prince" Privateer (1886) In Savage Africa (1887) To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. I, II Among The Turks(1890) Notes References R.F. Burton, V.L. Cameron "To the Gold Coast for Gold", V.L. Cameron "Across Africa", James Choyce "Log of a Jack Tar: James Choyce, Master Mariner", External links 1844 births 1894 deaths English explorers Explorers of Africa People from Weymouth, Dorset