Africa explored; or, A judicious abridgement of the latest and most authentic travels through Africa
By: by Vaillant ... [and others] containing a body of important and useful information concerning that continent, which exhibits a very satisfactory account of the manners, literature, religion, government and commerce of the inhabitants, together with the natural productions of that quarter of the globe, and a particular account of that part of the country situated on the River Sierra Leona where the English have a settlement, and of the Cape of Good Hope, as also a circumstantial account of the loss of the Grosvenor East Indiaman, with a relation of the events that befell the crew, &c
Publisher: J. Watson
Published: 1796
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
Subjects: Description and travel; Early works to 1800; Grosvenor East-Indiaman (Ship); Grosvenor (Ship)
Other titles: Judicious abridgement of the latest and most authentic travels through Africa.
Notes: "The first part of this collection is completed, and the separate numbers in which it has been published are now to be united into one volume." - Pref.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T209983
Table of contents: title: Travels of M. Vaillant.; title: Travels of Dr. Andrew Sparrman.; title: Matthews' voyage to the Slave Coast.; title: Mr. Norris' journey to Abomey, the capital of Dahomy, an inland kingdom of Guiney; with memoirs of the reign of Bossa Ahadee, King of Dahomy.; title: Poiret's travels in Barbary.; title: Mr. Lucas's travels.; title: A circumstantial account of the loss of the Grosvenor East-Indiaman, on the South-east coast of Africa; together with a relation of the events which befel the crew and passengers, as given by the survirors who have reached England, Robert Price, Thomas Lewis, John Warmington, and Robert Larey.