Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains
An Exploration
Volume 2
Part of Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies
- Author: Richard Francis Burton
- Date Published: April 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108030281
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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 2 Burton discusses his expedition to the mountains on the coast of Cameroon, where he climbed to the peak of Mount Cameroon, an active volcano. This volume also has extensive appendices that include lists of plants collected on his expeditions, notes about the wildlife living in the mountains, and observations about the climate and temperature of the region.
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- Date Published: April 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108030281
- length: 332 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.42kg
- contains: 3 b/w illus. 1 map
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
9. Diplomacy
departure and return to Lagos
The Camaroons Mountains:
1. Preliminaries of exploration
2. We encamp at 'Mann's Spring'
3. First ascent of Pico Grande
4. Subsequent ascents by Messrs. Calvo, Saker, and Mann
5. The final ascent
6. Return to Fernando Po
Appendices:
1. Mr. Grazilhier's description of the Ambozes Country
2. Mr. Merrick's tour in West Africa
3. Flora of the Camaroons Mountains, of Clarence Peak, Fernando Po, and of the Peak of San Thomé
4. Notes on the fauna of the Camaroons Mountains
5. Reports and letters touching Ambas Bay
6. Meteorological observations
7. Hypsometrical table.
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