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MISSIONS TO THE NIGER Hornemann's Travels 1797-98. Gordon Laing 1824-26 Africa

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MISSIONS TO THE NIGER, I

The Journal of Friedrich Hornemann's Travels, 1797-98

The Letters of Major Alexander Gordon Laing, 1824-26

EDITED BY E. W. BOVILL

THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY
1964

This is the first of several volumes on the exploration of the Niger following its discovery by Mungo Park. It begins with the travels of Friedrich Hornemann and then leaps a quarter of a century to the great journey of Alexander Gordon Laing. The travels of Lyon, Oudney, Denham and Clapperton will be the subject of later volumes.

Book I consists of an edited text of Hornemann's journal of his travels from Cairo to Murzuk between 1797 and 1798 together with an introduction by Mr Bovill. Book II, on Laing's mission to Timbucktu from 1824 until his death in 1826, has been built up from miscellaneous material drawn from various contemporary sources. All the more important contemporary documents, whether in Laing's hand or not, have been printed exactly as they were written, but the fragmentary material which can be drawn from less important letters and official despatches has been turned into editorial notes which are interpolated in the text.

Second Series, No. CXXIII

22 x 15 cm. xiii + 406 pp + 4 plates + 5 maps.

Very good condition, dust jacket foxed and tanned on spine, some mild foxing to page edges.

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