Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labors during an Eighteen Years’ Residence in Eastern Africa; together with Journeys to Jagga, Usambara, Ukambani, Shoa, Abessinia, and Khartum; and a Coasting Voyage from Mombaz to Cape Delgado. With an Appendix respecting the Snow-capped Mountains of Eastern Africa; the Sources of the Nile; the Languages and Literature of Abessinia and Eastern Africa, etc., etc. and a Concise Account of Geographical Researches in Eastern Africa up to the Discovery of the Uyenyesi by Dr. Livingstone, in September last, by E. J. Ravenstein, F.R.G.S.
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Year: 1860
Entry: Krapf, Johann Ludwig. Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labors during an Eighteen Years’ Residence in Eastern Africa; together with Journeys to Jagga, Usambara, Ukambani, Shoa, Abessinia, and Khartum; and a Coasting Voyage from Mombaz to Cape Delgado. With an Appendix respecting the Snow-capped Mountains of Eastern Africa; the Sources of the Nile; the Languages and Literature of Abessinia and Eastern Africa, etc., etc. and a Concise Account of Geographical Researches in Eastern Africa up to the Discovery of the Uyenyesi by Dr. Livingstone, in September last, by E. J. Ravenstein, F.R.G.S. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, MDCCCLX. xl, 464 p.
Author/Editor: Krapf, Johann Ludwig
Location: Boston, MA
Holdings: In most academic libraries
Title: Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labors during an Eighteen Years’ Residence in Eastern Africa; together with Journeys to Jagga, Usambara, Ukambani, Shoa, Abessinia, and Khartum; and a Coasting Voyage from Mombaz to Cape Delgado. With an Appendix respecting the Snow-capped Mountains of Eastern Africa; the Sources of the Nile; the Languages and Literature of Abessinia and Eastern Africa, etc., etc. and a Concise Account of Geographical Researches in Eastern Africa up to the Discovery of the Uyenyesi by Dr. Livingstone, in September last, by E. J. Ravenstein, F.R.G.S.
Printer/Publisher: Ticknor and Fields
Language: English
Notes: The "Supplementary Chapter. Notes on East-African History," opens with King Solomon, speculation about the land of Ophir’s location, and legends concerning the Queen of Sheba. For traditions surrounding King Menelek, born to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, see pp. 364, 455, note 95. For a reference to the so-called Falasha Jews in the Gondar region, see p. 375. A perfect copy has a folded map. The American edition omits the portrait of the author and color plates found in the London, 1860, edition published by Trübner.