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JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION UP THE NIGER AND TSHADDA RIVERS
UNDERTAKEN BY MACGREGOR LAIRD, ESQ. IN CONNECTION WITH THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT, IN 1854 |
| By: |
Samuel Crowther |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£50.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0511697848 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780511697845 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
29 August, 2010 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - Religion |
| Description: |
An 1854 expedition to West Africa as experienced by the Sierra Leonean clergyman and linguist Samuel Crowther. |
| Synopsis: |
Captured by slavers as a boy, freed by the Royal Navy, and raised at a mission, Samuel Crowther in 1864 became the first African to be ordained as an Anglican bishop. As a priest, he accompanied the Scottish merchant MacGregor Laird on his expedition to West Africa in 1854, and celebrated Sunday services in a variety of bizarre locations and perilous conditions. This 1855 book is Crowther's detailed record of his journey aboard the steamboat Pleiad. Written from the unusual perspective of an African-born, London-educated clergyman, it is a congenial and evocative account of the day-to-day difficulties confronting the explorers, their interactions with native peoples, and encounters with slavery and civil war. Crowther, a keen linguist, went on to publish several books on African languages including Nupe, Igbo and Yoruba. This book includes a substantial appendix comparing the grammar and vocabularies of the languages he encountered. |
| Illustrations: |
1 map |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing) |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |