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The African traveller, or, Select lives, voyages, and travels : carefully abridged from the original...

The African traveller, or, Select lives, voyages, and travels : carefully abridged from the original...

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The African traveller, or, Select lives, voyages, and travels : carefully abridged from the original publications of Bruce, Barrow, Campbell, & Park, including the narrative of Robert Adams, a sailor, who resided some months in the city of Tombuctoo, the shipwreck of James Riley, and his companions, who were made captives by the Arabs, and ransomed in 1815, an account of the total failure of the recent expedition up the river Congo, death of Capt. Tuckey, &c.; the history of the settlement of Sierra Leone; and the best and most recent description of the Cape of Good Hope, interspersed with a variety of interesting and important original intelligence, notes, observations, etc. : the whole designed as an entertaining companion to the general reader, and a faithful guide to the emigrant / by Charles Hulbert, editor of the Salopian Magazine, &c. &c. ; assisted by several literary gentlemen, formerly residents in Africa.

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Full title

The African traveller, or, Select lives, voyages, and travels : carefully abridged from the original publications of Bruce, Barrow, Campbell, & Park, including the narrative of Robert Adams, a sailor, who resided some months in the city of Tombuctoo, the shipwreck of James Riley, and his companions, who were made captives by the Arabs, and ransomed in 1815, an account of the total failure of the recent expedition up the river Congo, death of Capt. Tuckey, &c.; the history of the settlement of Sierra Leone; and the best and most recent description of the Cape of Good Hope, interspersed with a variety of interesting and important original intelligence, notes, observations, etc. : the whole designed as an entertaining companion to the general reader, and a faithful guide to the emigrant / by Charles Hulbert, editor of the Salopian Magazine, &c. &c. ; assisted by several literary gentlemen, formerly residents in Africa.

Publisher

Shrewsbury [England] : C. Hulbert, [1817]

Alternative title

African traveller, or, Select lives, voyages, and travels : carefully abridged from the original publications of Bruce, Barrow, Campbell, and Park

Record Identifier

74VKVELWbplM

MMS ID

991024131407002626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

1 online resource (viii, 168 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates (folded)) : illustrations, map.

Content type

text

Media type

computer

Carrier type

online resource

Publication information

Publisher

Shrewsbury [England] : C. Hulbert, [1817]

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

[1817]

More information

Alternative Titles

Full title

The African traveller, or, Select lives, voyages, and travels : carefully abridged from the original publications of Bruce, Barrow, Campbell, & Park, including the narrative of Robert Adams, a sailor, who resided some months in the city of Tombuctoo, the shipwreck of James Riley, and his companions, who were made captives by the Arabs, and ransomed...

Caption title

Select lives, travels, and voyages

Portion of title

Select lives, voyages, and travels

Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes

General note

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature

Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.

Scanned copy defective: folded map wanting.

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Primary Identifiers

Record Identifier

74VKVELWbplM

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVELWbplM

Other Identifiers

MMS ID

991024131407002626