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)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies, Volume 2
Release date:	May 2014
First published:	May 2014
Authors:	Nathaniel Pearce
Editors:	John James Halls
Dimensions:	140 x 217 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	364
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-07461-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > History > African history > General
LSN:	1-108-07461-8
Barcode:	9781108074612

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