Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains
An Exploration
Volume 1
Part of Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies
- Author: Richard Francis Burton
- Date Published: April 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108030274
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Sir Richard Burton (1821–1890) the famous Victorian explorer, began his career in the Indian army in 1842. While in India he developed his linguistic talent, mastering more than forty different languages and dialects. He turned to writing books in the 1850s and, over the remaining forty years of his life, published dozens of works and more than one hundred articles. Burton wrote this two-volume work, published in 1863, while working as the British consul in Fernando Po (modern-day Equatorial Guinea), West Africa. In Volume 1 Burton describes his journey to Abeokuta, the capital of the Egba tribe of the Yoruba nation (which was located in the south-west of present-day Nigeria). Burton gives detailed descriptions of the people he meets – including the king – and considers the relationship between the Egba and British in the context of the latters' ambitions in West Africa.
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- Date Published: April 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108030274
- length: 358 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.46kg
- contains: 2 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. From Lagos to Abeokuta
2. Entrée into Abeokuta
3. Presented at Court
4. Touching matters religious at Abeokuta
5. The usual sketch – geographical and historical
6. Our second visit to the King
7. The King's return visit
8. The de omnibus and cotton chapter.
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