Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Soft Editions
Published: February 28, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781843500858
Subjects: Classic travel writing; Travel - Foreign; Travel; Africa; Adventurers & Explorers; Africa - West
First sentence: Soon after my return from the East Indies in 1793, having learnt that the Noblemen and Gentlemen, associated for the purpose of prosecuting Discoveries in the Interior of Africa, were desirous of engaging a person to explore that continent, by the way of the Gambia river, I took occasion, through means of the President of the Royal Society, to whom I had the honour to be known, of offering myself for that service.