BARTH (Henry).
Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: being a Journal of an Expedition undertaken under the auspices of H.B.M.'s Government in the Years 1849-1855.
A very good set. Barth made his name both as a traveller and historian. In 1850 he joined James Richardson’s expedition to Lake Chad. Departing from Tripoli, this was one of several expeditions designed to disrupt the slave trade by way of promoting legitimate commerce. On Richardson’s death in March 1851, Barth assumed leadership of the expedition and became the first European to visit Adamawa. Including notes on economics, linguistics, topography and cultural history, his account is of a much greater scope than many traveller’s accounts produced in the era. Abbey Travel 274. Gay 207. Hilmy i, p. 53.
