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Henry Edward O'Neill was British Consul in Mozambique from 1879 to 1889. He completed thirteen exploratory journeys in northern Mozambique, including the first exploration of the Makua and Lomwe countries between Mozambique Island and Lake Malawi. This recreation of the book, which he never published, makes available for the first time a large body of information on the peoples of northern Mozambique (a region still little researched), on the history of the slave trade in the western Indian Ocean and on the expansion of Portuguese rule and the resistance to it by powerful local communities. The Introduction includes the first ever biographical study of O'Neill and his contribution to African exploration.

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Northern Mozambique in the Nineteenth Century est constitue de la biographie d'un marin devenu consul britannique (le troisieme: 1879 - 1889) au Mozambique, suivie de la publication du manuscrit d'un livre jamais publie (c'est, helas, frequent) reprenant les texes de plusieurs articles de l'auteur (Henry Edward O'Neill) resumant 13 voyages d'exploration entre le Zambeze et le Rovuma, avec une pointe au Sud-Mozambique. - Rene Pelissier, Africana Studia, No. 25, 2015, pp. 176

Northern Mozambique in the Nineteenth Century est constitue de la biographie d'un marin devenu consul britannique (le troisieme: 1879 - 1889) au Mozambique, suivie de la publication du manuscrit d'un livre jamais publie (c'est, helas, frequent) reprenant les texes de plusieurs articles de l'auteur (Henry Edward O'Neill) resumant 13 voyages d'exploration entre le Zambeze et le Rovuma, avec une pointe au Sud-Mozambique. - Rene Pelissier, in: Africana Studia, No. 25 (2015), p. 176 ...the book conveys interesting and important direct observations about and engagements with the trade, production, cultures and peoples of Northern Mozambique. This is a primary source, a historical narrative, a biography, and much more. - Jeanne Marie Penvenne, in: Luso-Brazilian Review, vol. 54 no. 2 (2017), pp. E21-E22

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Hilary Palmer, BA Exeter /History/Politics (1995), Postgraduate Certificate of Education (1996), MA Exeter History (1998), Teaching Fellow in Politics Department University of Exeter 1996-2010 (Retired). Currently Honorary Associate Research Fellow (University of Exeter). Published three articles on O'Neill/exploration including 'Lieutenant H.E. O'Neill The Reverend W.P. Johnson: The Controversy Surrounding the True Source of the Lujenda River...' in Terrae Incognitae, Volume 36 (2004). Malyn Newitt, BA Oxford (1961), PhD London. Current position: Emeritus Professor of History, King's College, London. Publications include Portuguese Settlement on the Zambesi (1973), Portugal in Africa (1981), History of Mozambique (1995), History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion (2005).

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