Journal of an Expedition up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers: Undertaken by Macgregor Laird, Esq. in Connection with the British Government, in 1854

di Samuel Crowther (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2010

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.

• Autore: Samuel Crowther
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Library Collection - Religion
• Anno: 2010
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 268 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 140 mm
• Peso: 350 gr.
• EAN: 9781108011839

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