Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara in the Years of 1845 and 1846. C

RICHARDSON (James).

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara in the Years of 1845 and 1846. Containing a Narrative of Personal Adventures, during a Tour of Nine Months through the Desert, amongst the Touaricks and other Tribes of Saharan People; including a description of the O

.First edition. 2 vols. Large folding map, portrait frontispiece & 2 plates. 8vo. Later calf, gilt, frayed at spine-heads and lacking title label of the 2nd volume, and with gilt spines dull Non-authorial presentation inscription on front free endpaper. Very good otherwisexxxii, 440; xii, 482pp. London, Richard Bentley, 1848.

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Richardson’s principal objective on this and his other two expeditions was to discover the state of, and the remedy to, the African Slave Trade, which he attributed in the main to European raiders.

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Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara in the Years of 1845 and 1846. Containing a Narrative of Personal Adventures, during a Tour of Nine Months through the Desert, amongst the Touaricks and other Tribes of Saharan People; including a description of the O

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