TRAVELS IN ABYSSINIA AND THE GALLA COUNTRY by Walter Chichele Plowden, Trevor Chichele Plowden (Editor) ( 9781108031455 )

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TRAVELS IN ABYSSINIA AND THE GALLA COUNTRY
WITH AN ACCOUNT OF A MISSION TO RAS ALI IN 1848

By:

Walter Chichele Plowden, Trevor Chichele Plowden (Editor)

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CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION

Pub. date:

2 June, 2011

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies

Pages:

516

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Exceptionally detailed observations of all levels of Abyssinian society written by the first British consul in Abyssinia, published in 1868.

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In 1868, eight years after his death at the hands of Abyssinian tribesmen, the memoirs of Walter Chichele Plowden (1820-60) were published in Britain, having been prepared for publication by his brother Trevor. As the first British consul appointed to Abyssinia in 1848, Plowden was in a unique position to record contemporary local history (although as consul he was not an unequivocal success), and this book contains his detailed account of all levels of Abyssinian society. A close associate of the Emperor Tewodros (Theodore), who slaughtered 2,000 people in retaliation for Plowden's death, he includes a vivid characterisation of this important figure, and provides an exceptionally useful contemporary source for the turbulent history of Abyssinia in the mid-nineteenth century. The book also includes two maps, one of the northern frontier of Abyssinia drawn by Plowden himself, and the other modelled on the British War Office map of Abyssinia.

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