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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2014
      May 2014
      ISBN:
      9781107450585
      9781108074612
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107450585
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      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 364 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, African Studies, Geography, Historical Geography, History, African History
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, African Studies, Geography, Historical Geography, History, African History
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    Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies
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    Nathaniel Pearce (1779–1820) was, according to J. J. Halls, who edited and published his autobiographical writings in 1831, 'one of those remarkable and adventurous beings, whom Nature … seems to take delight in creating'. Having run away to sea twice, deserted from the navy, accidentally killed a man, and briefly converted to Islam, he came into his own as a guide and factotum to British travellers in Egypt. He accompanied Henry Salt's 1805 mission to Abyssinia, where he married a local girl and served the ruler of Tigré until the latter's death in 1816. Pearce's humorous account of his life is particularly interesting in the details it gives of the land and people of Ethiopia, then little known by Europeans. In Volume 2, the situation in Abyssinia becomes dangerous and Pearce decides to escape down the Nile. The journal ends abruptly in 1819, a year before his death.

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