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.
1817
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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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African traveller, or, Select lives, voyages, and travels : carefully abridged from the original publications of Bruce, Barrow, Campbell, and Park
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Select lives, voyages, and travels
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Select lives, travels, and voyages
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Shrewsbury [England] : C. Hulbert, [1817]
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English
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1 online resource (viii, 168 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates (folded)) : illustrations, map.
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Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature.
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