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This work of 1822 was written by Royal Navy Lieutenant Edward Bold
to help sailors navigate from Britain to West Africa, via Madeira,
the Canaries and the Cape Verde Islands. Bold was concerned about
'excessively erroneous hydrographic descriptions' that misled ships
and put crews in danger. Writing after Britain's abolition of the
slave trade, Bold was an advocate of developing other types of
commerce with this region of Africa - an area, as he discovered,
rich in valuable ivory - and part of the work describes the system
of trade that stretched from port to port along the continent's
western coast, including useful information such as that, upon
arriving, sailors should indicate their desire to trade by 'firing
a gun and hoisting your colours'. With its navigational detail and
observations about trade, this work is a useful source on
Anglo-African commerce in the nineteenth century.
Title: The Merchant's and Mariner's African Guide; containing an
accurate description of the coast, bays, harbours, and adjacent
islands of West Africa ... to which is added, a minute explanation
of the various systems of traffic adopted on the Windward and Gold
Coast, also hints to the mercantile navigator, etc. With
plates.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF TRAVEL
collection includes books from the British Library digitised by
Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel
guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and
female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal
narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe,
Africa and the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Bold, Edward
1822 vi. 112 p.; 8 . 795.e.41.
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