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In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our
special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more
extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have
chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have
occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing
text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other
reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is
culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our
commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's
literature.
In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our
special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more
extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have
chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have
occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing
text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other
reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is
culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our
commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's
literature.
In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our
special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more
extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have
chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have
occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing
text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other
reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is
culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our
commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's
literature.
In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our
special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more
extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have
chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have
occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing
text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other
reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is
culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our
commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's
literature.
Nathaniel Pearce (1779-1820) was, according to J. J. Halls, who
edited and published his autobiographical writings in 1831, 'one of
those remarkable and adventurous beings, whom Nature ... seems to
take delight in creating'. Having run away to sea twice, deserted
from the navy, accidentally killed a man, and briefly converted to
Islam, he came into his own as a guide and factotum to British
travellers in Egypt. He accompanied Henry Salt's 1805 mission to
Abyssinia, where he married a local girl and served the ruler of
Tigre until the latter's death in 1816. Pearce's humorous account
of his life is particularly interesting in the details it gives of
the land and people of Ethiopia, then little known by Europeans.
Volume 1 begins the narrative of Pearce's life and his African
travels and also contains an account of an expedition to the city
of Gondar by his friend William Coffin.
Nathaniel Pearce (1779-1820) was, according to J. J. Halls, who
edited and published his autobiographical writings in 1831, 'one of
those remarkable and adventurous beings, whom Nature ... seems to
take delight in creating'. Having run away to sea twice, deserted
from the navy, accidentally killed a man, and briefly converted to
Islam, he came into his own as a guide and factotum to British
travellers in Egypt. He accompanied Henry Salt's 1805 mission to
Abyssinia, where he married a local girl and served the ruler of
Tigre until the latter's death in 1816. Pearce's humorous account
of his life is particularly interesting in the details it gives of
the land and people of Ethiopia, then little known by Europeans. In
Volume 2, the situation in Abyssinia becomes dangerous and Pearce
decides to escape down the Nile. The journal ends abruptly in 1819,
a year before his death.
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