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To the Gold Coast for Gold - A Personal Narrative (Paperback)
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To the Gold Coast for Gold - A Personal Narrative (Paperback)
Series: To the Gold Coast for Gold 2 Volume Set, Volume 1
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First published in 1883, this travel memoir describes the journey
into West Africa undertaken by explorers Richard Burton (1821 90)
and Verney Lovett Cameron (1844 94) in 1881. The mission for the
two men was to assess the mining potential of the west coast, first
observed by Burton in a publication that had appeared twenty years
earlier. The first few chapters of Volume 1 cover Burton's journey
from Trieste to Lisbon, Madeira and Tenerife and on to Africa
during the winter of 1881, including descriptions of Mount Atlas
and the Canary Islands. The volume finishes with their arrival in
Sierra Leone. The expedition was cut short by the Foreign Office,
who feared for the safety of the two explorers. Burton returned to
Europe with a large collection of plant and animal specimens, and
the pair sent 151 plant species, lists of which are included in the
appendices, to Kew Gardens.
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