NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY TO AFRICA AND ARABIA; Performed in His Majesty's Ships 'Leven' and 'Barracouta', from 1821 to 1826, under the Command of Captain F W Owen, RN.

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FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xxiv, 414; viii, 479; 4 lithographic plates, contemporary brown full polished calf, gilt, spine faded, joints rubbed, lower board Vol 1 scuffed with small loss of leather in 2 places, Eton binding. This expedition was undertaken to survey and chart the south-east coast of Africa, Madagascar and the west coast of Africa. The book holds exceptional interest for these areas, but also for South Africa, Mozambique, whaling, slave trade, Zambesi, Seychelles, Mauritius, Congo, Old Callabar, Cameroons and Sierra Leone. There are good descriptions of the Cape and Port Natal, a disastrous sub-expedition to survey part of the Zambesi, and finally the expedition to survey the west coast. Of the two accounts of the expedition this is the less common. N° de ref. del artículo 8152

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