First Footsteps in East Africa

By: Burton, Richard Francis

I doubt not there are many who ignore the fact that in Eastern Africa, scarcely three hundred miles distant from Aden, there is a counterpart of ill-famed Timbuctoo in the Far West. The more adventurous Abyssinian travellers, Salt and Stuart, Krapf and Isenberg, Barker and Rochet, -not to mention divers Roman Catholic Missioners, attempted Harar, but attempted it in vain. The bigoted ruler and barbarous people threatened death to the Infidel who ventured within their walls; some negro Merlin having, it is said, read Decline and Fall in the first footsteps of the Frank....

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08R1FY2T2
• ISBN13: 9798582896555
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.1" x 5.0"