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Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains - An Exploration (Paperback)
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Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains - An Exploration (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies, Volume 1
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Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) the famous Victorian explorer, began
his career in the Indian army in 1842. While in India he developed
his linguistic talent, mastering more than forty different
languages and dialects. He turned to writing books in the 1850s
and, over the remaining forty years of his life, published dozens
of works and more than one hundred articles. Burton wrote this
two-volume work, published in 1863, while working as the British
consul in Fernando Po (modern-day Equatorial Guinea), West Africa.
In Volume 1 Burton describes his journey to Abeokuta, the capital
of the Egba tribe of the Yoruba nation (which was located in the
south-west of present-day Nigeria). Burton gives detailed
descriptions of the people he meets - including the king - and
considers the relationship between the Egba and British in the
context of the latters' ambitions in West Africa.
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