| First Footsteps in East Africa Contributor(s): Burton, Richard Francis (Author) |
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ISBN: 1670755320 ISBN-13: 9781670755322 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $10.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - East - Social Science | Customs & Traditions - Travel | Essays & Travelogues |
| Dewey: 960 |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5" W x 8" (0.56 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: I doubt not there are many who ignore the fact that in Eastern Africa, scarcely three hundred miles distant from Aden, there is a counterpart of ill-famed Timbuctoo in the Far West. The more adventurous Abyssinian travellers, Salt and Stuart, Krapf and Isenberg, Barker and Rochet, -not to mention divers Roman Catholic Missioners, -attempted Harar, but attempted it in vain. The bigoted ruler and barbarous people threatened death to the Infidel who ventured within their walls; some negro Merlin having, it is said, read Decline and Fall in the first footsteps of the Frank....Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS was a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer and diplomat |