Author: Samuel Crowther
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714618661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
First published in 1855, this is an account of a British government-financed expedition to further European commercial interests in West Africa. It details the surveying of sites for future missions which has a profound effect on the history of Southern Nigeria.
Journal of an Expedition Up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers
Author: Samuel Crowther
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714618661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
First published in 1855, this is an account of a British government-financed expedition to further European commercial interests in West Africa. It details the surveying of sites for future missions which has a profound effect on the history of Southern Nigeria.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714618661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
First published in 1855, this is an account of a British government-financed expedition to further European commercial interests in West Africa. It details the surveying of sites for future missions which has a profound effect on the history of Southern Nigeria.
Journal of an Expedition Up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers
Author: Samuel Crowther
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781527654341
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Excerpt from Journal of an Expedition Up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers: Undertaken by Macgregor Laird, Esq., In Connection With the British Government, in 1854 About the time when the earlier sheets of The Journal were passing through the press, rumours had reached this country that Dr. Barth had lost his life in Africa; and hence the doubt re specting him expressed in a note, which will be found in p. 19. Dr. Barth, happily, has since returned to this country in safety. While the Expedition was up the Tshadda he was at a consider able distance in the interior. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781527654341
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Excerpt from Journal of an Expedition Up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers: Undertaken by Macgregor Laird, Esq., In Connection With the British Government, in 1854 About the time when the earlier sheets of The Journal were passing through the press, rumours had reached this country that Dr. Barth had lost his life in Africa; and hence the doubt re specting him expressed in a note, which will be found in p. 19. Dr. Barth, happily, has since returned to this country in safety. While the Expedition was up the Tshadda he was at a consider able distance in the interior. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Journal of an Expedition Up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers,
Author: Samuel Crowther
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Journal of an Expedition Up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers, Undertaken by Macgregor Laird ... in 1854
Author: Samuel Crowther
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Journal of an Expedition Up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers
Author: Samuel Crowther
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781699955512
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Captured by slavers as a boy, freed by the Royal Navy, and raised at a mission, Samuel Crowther in 1864 became the first African to be ordained as an Anglican bishop. As a priest, he accompanied the Scottish merchant MacGregor Laird on his expedition to West Africa in 1854, and celebrated Sunday services in a variety of bizarre locations and perilous conditions. This 1855 book is Crowther's detailed record of his journey aboard the steamboat Pleiad. Written from the unusual perspective of an African-born, London-educated clergyman, it is a congenial and evocative account of the day-to-day difficulties confronting the explorers, their interactions with native peoples, and encounters with slavery and civil war. Crowther, a keen linguist, went on to publish several books on African languages including Nupe, Igbo and Yoruba. This book includes a substantial appendix comparing the grammar and vocabularies of the languages he encountered.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781699955512
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Captured by slavers as a boy, freed by the Royal Navy, and raised at a mission, Samuel Crowther in 1864 became the first African to be ordained as an Anglican bishop. As a priest, he accompanied the Scottish merchant MacGregor Laird on his expedition to West Africa in 1854, and celebrated Sunday services in a variety of bizarre locations and perilous conditions. This 1855 book is Crowther's detailed record of his journey aboard the steamboat Pleiad. Written from the unusual perspective of an African-born, London-educated clergyman, it is a congenial and evocative account of the day-to-day difficulties confronting the explorers, their interactions with native peoples, and encounters with slavery and civil war. Crowther, a keen linguist, went on to publish several books on African languages including Nupe, Igbo and Yoruba. This book includes a substantial appendix comparing the grammar and vocabularies of the languages he encountered.
Journal of an Expedition Up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers Undertaken by Macgregor Laird in Connection with the British Government in 1854
Author: Samuel Crowther
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Journal of an Expedition Up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers,
Author: Samuel Crowther
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Last Blank Spaces
Author: Dane Kennedy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674074971
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The challenge of opening Africa and Australia to British imperial influence fell to a coterie of proto-professional explorers who sought knowledge, adventure, and fame but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. The Last Blank Spaces follows the arc of these explorations, from idea to practice, intention to outcome, myth to reality.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674074971
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The challenge of opening Africa and Australia to British imperial influence fell to a coterie of proto-professional explorers who sought knowledge, adventure, and fame but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. The Last Blank Spaces follows the arc of these explorations, from idea to practice, intention to outcome, myth to reality.
At the Crossroads
Author: Rebecca Jones
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1847012221
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASAUK FAGE & OLIVER PRIZE 2020 'Honorable Mention' for the ALA FIRST BOOK AWARD - SCHOLARSHIP 2021 A path-breaking contribution to the critical literature on African travel writing.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1847012221
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASAUK FAGE & OLIVER PRIZE 2020 'Honorable Mention' for the ALA FIRST BOOK AWARD - SCHOLARSHIP 2021 A path-breaking contribution to the critical literature on African travel writing.
Monthly Bulletin of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description