Name: First Footsteps In East Africa: (Richard Francis Burton Classics Collection) (en Inglés)
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Author: Francis Burton, Richard
ISBN: 9781508616993

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First Footsteps In East Africa: (Richard Francis Burton Classics Collection) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

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Autor

Francis Burton, Richard

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Inglés

N° páginas

286

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Tapa Blanda

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22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm

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0.39 kg.

ISBN13

9781508616993

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Ficción: general y literaria

First Footsteps In East Africa: (Richard Francis Burton Classics Collection) (en Inglés)

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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. [1] Of all foreigners the English were, of course, the most hated and dreaded; at Harar slavery still holds its head-quarters, and the old Dragon well knows what to expect from the hand of St. George. Thus the various travellers who appeared in beaver and black coats became persuaded that the city was inaccessible, and Europeans ceased to trouble themselves about Hara