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The Life and Adventures of Nathaniel Pearce - Written by Himself, during a Residence in Abyssinia from the Years 1810-1819; Together with Mr Coffin's Account of his First Visit to Gondar (Paperback)
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The Life and Adventures of Nathaniel Pearce - Written by Himself, during a Residence in Abyssinia from the Years 1810-1819; Together with Mr Coffin's Account of his First Visit to Gondar (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies, Volume 2
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Nathaniel Pearce (1779-1820) was, according to J. J. Halls, who
edited and published his autobiographical writings in 1831, 'one of
those remarkable and adventurous beings, whom Nature ... seems to
take delight in creating'. Having run away to sea twice, deserted
from the navy, accidentally killed a man, and briefly converted to
Islam, he came into his own as a guide and factotum to British
travellers in Egypt. He accompanied Henry Salt's 1805 mission to
Abyssinia, where he married a local girl and served the ruler of
Tigre until the latter's death in 1816. Pearce's humorous account
of his life is particularly interesting in the details it gives of
the land and people of Ethiopia, then little known by Europeans. In
Volume 2, the situation in Abyssinia becomes dangerous and Pearce
decides to escape down the Nile. The journal ends abruptly in 1819,
a year before his death.
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