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Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po - By a F.R.G.S. (Paperback)
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Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po - By a F.R.G.S. (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies, Volume 1
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Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 1890) was a British explorer,
writer and ethnologist best known for his travels in Asia and
Africa in the nineteenth century. This is his account, originally
published in 1863, of his mission to investigate mortality in West
Africa. In Volume 1 he describes his departure from England, with
accounts of the landscapes, buildings, cultures and cuisines that
characterized his journey from Liverpool through Madeira and
Tenerife, before recalling his first impressions of Africa on
arriving in Bathurst on the Eastern Cape. In the final two chapters
he recounts his findings in Sierra Leone and Cape Palmas, revealing
how the positioning of settlements exposed their inhabitants to
disease, adverse weather conditions, poverty and malnourishment.
Set within a fascinating historical, political and cultural
context, and written in vivid detail, Burton's memoirs remain of
great interest and relevance to anthropologists, historians and
geographers today.
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