Narrative of travels and discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824

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Narrative of travels and discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824

by Hugh Clapperton, Dixon Denham, Walter Oudney

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The appendix, 131 p. at end, contains: no. I-XVI. Translations from the Arabic, of various letters and documents, brought from Bornou and Soudan by Major Denham and Captain Clapperton. By A. Salame.--no. XVII-XX. Bornu, Bengharmi, Mandara, and Timbuctoo vocabularies.--XXI. Zoology. [By John George Children and Nicholas Aylward Vigors.]--XXII. Botanical appendix. By Robert Brown.--XXIII. Letter to Major Denham, on the rock specimens ... by Charles Konig.--XXV. Thermometrical journal kept at Kouka in Bornou.

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Project Gutenberg

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London: John Murray, 1826.

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Release date

2023-09-29

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Public domain in the USA.

About the authors

Hugh Clapperton

Hugh Clapperton

1788–1827

Drawn by the unknown reaches of West and Central Africa, this Scottish explorer became one of the first Europeans to travel across the Sahara and report firsthand on places few readers in Britain had ever heard described in detail.

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Dixon Denham

Dixon Denham

1786–1828

A soldier turned explorer, he helped open European knowledge of the Lake Chad region after a grueling journey across the Sahara. His short life also carried him from the Napoleonic Wars to the governorship of Sierra Leone.

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Walter Oudney

1790–1824

A Scottish doctor and explorer, he joined one of the earliest 19th-century British expeditions into the central Sahara and Sudan. His short life was marked by scientific curiosity, difficult travel, and a determined effort to understand regions then little known in Britain.

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