HUGH CLAPPERTON INTO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA, RECORDS OF THE SECOND EXPEDITION, 1825-1827
Language: English
Published by Brill, Leiden 2005, 1st edition, 2005
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large 8vo, 13+544 pages, bibliography, illustrations, original documents, maps, being Vol. 2 in their series Sources for African History : based largely on Clapperton's diaries, a huge resource of primary material on his expedition to West Africa inland from the Bight of Benin; paperback FINE SCARCE, a heavy book that may attract extra postage isbn 9004141553 west africa bight of benin nigeria african exploration niger clapperton.
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- Title
- HUGH CLAPPERTON INTO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA, RECORDS OF THE SECOND EXPEDITION, 1825-1827
- Author
- Lockhart, Jamie Bruce & Lovejoy, Paul E
- Publisher
- Brill, Leiden 2005, 1st edition
- Publication year
- 2005
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 9004141553
- ISBN 13
- 9789004141551
- Series
- Book 4 of 5: Sources for African History
A comprehensive introduction provides information on Clapperton's life, an account of previous European missions into the interior of West Africa, an assessment of Clapperton's contribution to geographical "discovery," details on Clapperton's methods of journal-keeping, and a discussion of the publication history of the 1829 edition. The introduction offers a commentary on the principal themes on which Clapperton's records shed original light - the coastal slave trade, abolitionist issues in the Sokoto Caliphate, the history of the states of Oyo, Nupe and Sokoto, and information on travel and trade in the interior of West Africa. The text itself is annotated, with observations on differences between the original sources and the published version of 1829.
The volume includes six appendices of official documents relating to the expedition, its preparation and progress. These include the correspondence of various members of the expedition, letters in Arabic with a commentary, annotated itineraries of travel, and a note on contemporary medicines. Also included is a collection of maps from Clapperton's earlier mission in 1824-26 - the first known route-maps of the central Sudan, now in the collection of the Royal Geographical Society, London. The book is illustrated with previously unpublished sketches and maps from Clapperton's remark books and a dozen sketches drawn by one of the co-editors when tracing Clapperton's footsteps across Nigeria from Badagry to Sokoto in the early 1990s. There is an extensive bibliography.
This comprehensive edition of Clapperton's last journey will appeal equally to scholars of pre-colonial Africa, specialists in Yoruba studies, and students of European travel and exploration.
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About the Author
Jamie Bruce Lockhart, (BA, Cantab, 1963), formerly of the British Diplomatic Service, has edited Clapperton in Borno. Journals of the Travels in Borno of Lieutenant Hugh Clapperton (1996) and Difficult and Dangerous Roads: Hugh Clapperton's Travels in Sahara and Fezzan 1822-1825 (2000).
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