Journal of an Expedition up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers
Undertaken by Macgregor Laird, Esq. in Connection with the British Government, in 1854
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- Author: Samuel Crowther
- Date Published: May 2010
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108011839
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Captured by slavers as a boy, freed by the Royal Navy, and raised at a mission, Samuel Crowther in 1864 became the first African to be ordained as an Anglican bishop. As a priest, he accompanied the Scottish merchant MacGregor Laird on his expedition to West Africa in 1854, and celebrated Sunday services in a variety of bizarre locations and perilous conditions. This 1855 book is Crowther's detailed record of his journey aboard the steamboat Pleiad. Written from the unusual perspective of an African-born, London-educated clergyman, it is a congenial and evocative account of the day-to-day difficulties confronting the explorers, their interactions with native peoples, and encounters with slavery and civil war. Crowther, a keen linguist, went on to publish several books on African languages including Nupe, Igbo and Yoruba. This book includes a substantial appendix comparing the grammar and vocabularies of the languages he encountered.
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- Date Published: May 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108011839
- length: 268 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.35kg
- contains: 1 map
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Departure from Abbeokuta
2. Entrance of the Tshadda
3. Interview with the chief of Zhibu
4. Return of the expedition
5. Sickness of two of the party left at the confluence
Appendix.
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