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JOURNALS OF THE REV. JAMES FREDERICK SCHÖN AND MR. SAMUEL CROWTHER, Who With The Sanction of Her Majesty’s Government, Accompanied the Expedition Up the Niger, in 1841, in Behalf of the Church Missionary Society
by Schön, James Frederick and Crowther, Samuel
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London: Hatchard and Son, Piccadilly, 1842. First edition. Illustrated with a large folding map. 8vo, antique three-quarter calf over pebbled cloth, spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt. xxii, 393 pp. A bright, clean and very well preserved copy, the upper hinge cracked through, small loss of calf at the base of the spine. RARE FIRST EDITION. “In the year 1841 an Expedition , consisting of three Steamers of the Royal Navy, was sent up the Niger by Her Majesty’s Government.”
An intriguing work of early African travel presented in the form of two journals. Samuel Crowther became the first African bishop in the Anglican Church. The ordeal of his captivity by Moslem slave-traders and liberation by the Royal Navy is narrated here in an appendix. Schön was a German missionary and linguist who was active in Sierra Leone. After his participation in the Niger expedition he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Oxford University.
An intriguing work of early African travel presented in the form of two journals. Samuel Crowther became the first African bishop in the Anglican Church. The ordeal of his captivity by Moslem slave-traders and liberation by the Royal Navy is narrated here in an appendix. Schön was a German missionary and linguist who was active in Sierra Leone. After his participation in the Niger expedition he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Oxford University.
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- Buddenbrooks, Inc.
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- Title
- JOURNALS OF THE REV. JAMES FREDERICK SCHÖN AND MR. SAMUEL CROWTHER, Who With The Sanction of Her Majesty’s Government, Accompanied the Expedition Up the Niger, in 1841, in Behalf of the Church Missionary Society
- Author
- Schön, James Frederick and Crowther, Samuel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hatchard and Son, Piccadilly
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1842
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