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The date when this story begins is a Saturday afternoon in June,
1900, about 3 p.m. The scene is the western room of a suite of
offices on the fifth floor of a house in Chancery Lane, the offices
of Fraser and Warren, Consultant Actuaries and Accountants. There
is a long window facing west, the central part of which is open,
affording a passage out on to a parapet. Through this window, and
still better from the parapet outside, may be seen the picturesque
spires and turrets of the Law Courts, a glimpse here and there of
the mellow, red-brick, white-windowed houses of New Square, the
tree-tops of Lincoln's Inn Fields, and the hint beyond a steepled
and chimneyed horizon of the wooded heights of Highgate. All this
outlook is flooded with the brilliant sunshine of June, scarcely
dimmed by the city smoke and fumes. In the room itself there are on
each of the tables vases of flowers and a bunch of dark red roses
on the top of the many pigeon-holed bureau at which Vivien Warren
is seated. The walls are mainly covered with book-shelves well
filled with consultative works on many diverse subjects.
Originally published in 1913, this book contains a proposed
universal alphabet for all forms of speech. Johnston includes
sample sentences from a variety of languages spelled out in his
phonetic alphabet at the conclusion of the text. This book will be
of value for anyone with an interest in phonetics and the search
for a universally applicable writing system.
Sir Harry Johnston (1858 1927), was a British artist, explorer and
colonial administrator. He was a key figure in the so-called
'Scramble for Africa', the invasion and colonisation of Africa by
major European powers in the late nineteenth century. This book,
first published in 1903, is Johnston's wide-ranging history of Nile
exploration, beginning with the Ancient Egyptians and the Greeks
and continuing into the Victorian period. As well as charting the
development of ancient civilisations in the Nile region, Johnston
also discusses its wider role in world history and its appeal to
powerful leaders from Alexander the Great to Napoleon. As a
contemporary of many significant participants in nineteenth-century
Nile exploration, Johnston was perfectly situated to provide
detailed insights into the personalities and achievements of
explorers such as Burton, Stanley and Speke. His absorbing and
accessible account provides a fascinating late Victorian
perspective on the subject.
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