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Francis Moore

An 18th-century British travel writer, he is best remembered for a vivid account of West Africa that introduced many English readers to places they had never seen. Little is known about his life, which makes his surviving work all the more notable.

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Scriptural and Hieroglyphic Observations which were foretold in the years of 1750 & 1792

Scriptural and Hieroglyphic Observations which were foretold in the years of 1750 & 1792

by Francis Moore

About the author

Born in Worcester, England, Francis Moore was an 18th-century British travel writer. The details of his early life are scarce, but he became known after publishing Travels into the Inland Parts of Africa in 1738.

That book drew on his experiences in West Africa and helped shape how British readers understood the region in the 1700s. Because so little personal information about him survives, his reputation rests mainly on this travel narrative and its place in early English writing about Africa.

Sources found during research describe him as having been baptized in 1708 and dying in or after 1756, though even those dates are not fully certain. What remains clear is that his book gave him a lasting place in the history of travel writing.