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OverviewNathaniel Pearce (1779–1820) was, according to J. J. Halls, who edited and published his autobiographical writings in 1831, 'one of those remarkable and adventurous beings, whom Nature … seems to take delight in creating'. Having run away to sea twice, deserted from the navy, accidentally killed a man, and briefly converted to Islam, he came into his own as a guide and factotum to British travellers in Egypt. He accompanied Henry Salt's 1805 mission to Abyssinia, where he married a local girl and served the ruler of Tigré until the latter's death in 1816. Pearce's humorous account of his life is particularly interesting in the details it gives of the land and people of Ethiopia, then little known by Europeans. Volume 1 begins the narrative of Pearce's life and his African travels and also contains an account of an expedition to the city of Gondar by his friend William Coffin. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nathaniel Pearce , John James HallsPublisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.70cm Weight: 0.470kg ISBN: 9781108074605ISBN 10: 110807460 Pages: 364 Publication Date: 22 May 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsDedication; Live of Nathaniel Pearce; 1. Ras Welled Selassé; 2. Destruction of the town of Bolento; 3. The Ras marches against a Galla chief; 4. Death of the deposed king Itsa Ischias; 5. Pearce is obliged by ill health to leave the Ras; 6. Mr Coffin's journal of the expedition to Gondar; 7. Mr Coffin's narrative concluded; 8. Pearce's journal resumed; 9. Character, manners, and customs, of the Abyssinians; 10. Arts practised to procure husbands.ReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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