Download or read book Journal of a Second Expedition Into the Interior of Africa from the Bight of Benin to Soccatoo written by Hugh Clapperton and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of a Second Expedition into the Interior of Africa from the Bight of Benin to Soccatoo written by Hugh Clapperton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Hugh Clapperton's journal of his second expedition to West Africa was published posthumously in 1829.
Download or read book Journal of a Second Expedition into the Interior of Africa from the Bight of Benin to Soccatoo written by H. Clapperton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account was first published in 1829. After serving in the Royal Navy in Canada, Hugh Clapperton (1788-1827) participated in two expeditions to the interior of Africa. Richard Lander (1804-34), a young Cornishman who had travelled widely in the service of previous employers, applied to accompany him on the second expedition, during which Clapperton died. Lander published this edition of Clapperton's journal in 1829; an expanded version (also available in this series) appeared the following year. Clapperton's account of his experiences is informal, lively and vivid, describing hospitality and annoyances, discomforts and pleasures. Although its language and attitudes are typical of the early colonial period, it remains a valuable source for West African history. The book also contains a short biography of Clapperton, Lander's emotional account of his master's illness and death, and his journal of his lonely return journey. The appendix includes meteorological observations, notes on Arabic documents, and Yoruba vocabulary.
Download or read book Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged written by and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths.
Download or read book Monthly Review Or New Literary Journal written by Ralph Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Travels Into Print written by Innes M. Keighren and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Exploration and Discovery may well have started in the 15th century, but for the British, the 19th century saw the rise of the British Empire and an explosion in world travel. The travel narratives written during this century were profuse, and by some estimates more travel narratives were written during the first half of the 19th century than in all preceding centuries. These accounts tell of wondrous zoological and botanical finds, of topography never before imagined, and of exotic peoples as well. At the time, there was one publisher, John Murray, known for its utter domination of the travel narrative field. The caliber and profile of their list was known throughout the UK and Europe, and into the US as well. The authors of the house included Jane Austen, Lord Byron, Washington Irving, and Sir Walter Scott. And in its list of travel writing and exploration, the house boasted the authors Charles Darwin and Charles Lyell. Murray s name became as synonymous with travel writing and exploration as it was with literary giants. Travels into Print is a tour through the archives and files of the House of Murray, and marvelous expedition in the geography of travel and exploration writing, knowledge, and reception in the 19th century. Rather than focusing on narratives of a particular region, or scientific area of interest, or particular period, the work uses a source that cuts across all of these areas, the publisher. Steeped in book files, and correspondence about edits, and revisions, sent between Murray and his staff and explorers, the book addresses the ways in which the texts were written, the role of truth in the accounts, correspondence as a form of production, and the writings as travel documents. This is a wonderful history of the book, told from the perspective of a legendary book and author maker. "
Download or read book The Monthly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of a Second Expedition Into the Interior of Africa written by Hugh Clapperton and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hugh Clapperton Into the Interior of Africa written by Hugh Clapperton and published by Leiden [Netherlands] : Brill. This book was released on 2005 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh Clapperton, Scottish explorer and diplomat, made two expeditions into the interior of West Africa, the first across the Sahara Desert and the second inland from the Bight of Benin. His first expedition in 1822-24, crossed the Sahara to Borno. A second expedition, also an official mission of the British Government, was undertaken in 1825-27 and is the subject of this volume. Clapperton's diaries have been transcribed and reproduced in a form as close as possible to the original raw material.
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Download or read book From Slave Trade to Legitimate Commerce written by Robin Law and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection, written by eleven leading specialists, examines the nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic slave trade and the development of alternative forms of 'legitimate' trade, mainly in vegetable products. Approaching the subject from an African, rather than a European or American, perspective, the case studies consider the effects of transition on the African societies involved. They offer significant insights into the history of pre-colonial Africa and the slave trade, the origins of European imperialism, and longer-term issues of economic development in Africa.
Download or read book Africa Remembered Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade written by Philip D. Curtin and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal narratives by Africans subjected to the Atlantic slave trade.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Yoruba written by Toyin Falola and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The encyclopedia gives a complex, yet detailed, presentation of the Yorùbá, a dominant ethnic group in West Africa . . . an invaluable resource.” —Yoruba Studies Review The Yoruba people today number more than thirty million strong, with significant numbers in the United States, Nigeria, Europe, and Brazil. This landmark reference work emphasizes Yoruba history, geography and demography, language and linguistics, literature, philosophy, religion, and art. The 285 entries include biographies of prominent Yoruba figures, artists, and authors; the histories of political institutions; and the impact of technology and media, urban living, and contemporary culture on Yoruba people worldwide. Written by Yoruba experts on all continents, this encyclopedia provides comprehensive background to the global Yoruba and their distinctive and vibrant history and culture. “Readers unfamiliar with the Yoruba will find the introduction a concise and valuable overview of their language and its dialects, recent history, mythology and religion, and diaspora movements . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice
Download or read book Speke written by Alexander Maitland and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Hanning Speke was one of the great Victorian explorers and his most famous achievement was the discovery in 1862 of the main source of the White Nile in Lake Victoria Nyanza. Born in 1827, he joined the Indian Army at the age of seventeen, and after serving for ten years he joined Sir Richard Burton's abortive expedition to Somaliland. After a military interlude in the Crimea, Speke joined Burton's second Central African expedition in the winter of 1856, twice crossed Lake Tanganyika by canoe and finally pressed on to the Ukerewe Lake which he thought was the source of the Nile; Burton was sceptical. Speke's courage, perseverance and toughness were heroic and his instinct for wild life and wild country remarkable. In 1860 Speke was put in charge of a new expedition and finally penetrated to the place where the Nile flows out of Lake Victoria Nyanza. First published in 1971, Alexander Maitland's biography remains the only full-length study of Speke.
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