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TRAVELS THROUGH THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA, FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE TO MOROCCO;. Through the Desert of Sahara and the North of Barbary to Morocco Between the Years 1781 and 1797. Faithfully Translated From the German.

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TRAVELS THROUGH THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA, FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE TO MOROCCO;. Through the Desert of Sahara and the North of Barbary to Morocco Between the Years 1781 and 1797. Faithfully Translated From the German.

by Damberger, Christian Frederick

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Printed by Samuel Etheridge for E. and S. Larkin, Charlestown and Boston: 1801., 1801 pp. xxiv, 523. Lacks map. Stamped ownership of Mercantile Library, Boston on title page. XLib. Penciled manuscript criticizing the author. Foxed and age stained. Some papers torn without loss. 8vo. Rebound in orange library buckram. "One of the cleverest volumes of fabricated travels ever produced. The details are so circumstantial, and the mixture of fact and fiction is accomplished with so much skill, that it is not uncommon to find people who do not know that the account of the travels is nothing more than a well-contrived literary deception" - Mendelssohn. South African Bibliography. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AFRICA/3 Language: eng. Hardcover. Good.

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TRAVELS THROUGH THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA, FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE TO MOROCCO;. Through the Desert of Sahara and the North of Barbary to Morocco Between the Years 1781 and 1797. Faithfully Translated From the German.
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Damberger, Christian Frederick
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Hardcover
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Printed by Samuel Etheridge for E. and S. Larkin, Charlestown and Boston: 1801.
Date Published
1801
Keywords
AFRICA; HISTORY; TRAVEL; NEGRO; CHRISTIAN FREDERICK DAMBERGER; NARRATIVE; E XPLORATION; DISCOVERY; AFRICAN TRIBES; SAHARA DESERT; MOROCCO; BARBARY COAS T; CAPE OF GOOD HOPE; 1781 AND 1797
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AFRICA; EARLY AMERICAN IMPRINTS; TRAVEL / EXPLORATION;

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