Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains 2 Volume Set : An Exploration Mixed media product
by Richard Francis Burton
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies series
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Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) the famous Victorian explorer, began his career in the Indian army in 1842.
While in India he developed his linguistic talent, mastering more than forty different languages and dialects.
He turned to writing books in the 1850s and, over the remaining forty years of his life, published dozens of works and more than one hundred articles.
Burton wrote this two-volume work, published in 1863, while working as the British consul in Fernando Po (modern-day Equatorial Guinea), West Africa.
In Volume 1 Burton describes his journey to Abeokuta, the capital of the Egba tribe of the Yoruba nation.
In Volume 2 Burton discusses his expedition to the mountains on the coast of Cameroon, where he climbed to the peak of Mount Cameroon, an active volcano.
There are extensive appendices on natural history.
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- Pages:686 pages, 5 Plates, black and white; 1 Maps
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:21/07/2011
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- ISBN:9781108030298
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- Format:Mixed media product
- Pages:686 pages, 5 Plates, black and white; 1 Maps
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:21/07/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108030298
