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First edition of Samuel Crowther's Journal of an Expedition up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers, his account of the 1854 expedition of the Pleiad up the Niger by Baikie.
First edition of Samuel Crowther's Journal of an Expedition up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers, his account of the 1854 expedition of the Pleiad up the Niger by Baikie.
First edition of Samuel Crowther's Journal of an Expedition up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers, his account of the 1854 expedition of the Pleiad up the Niger by Baikie.

written by the first African bishop of West Africa


CROWTHER, Rev. Samuel.

Journal of an Expedition up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers, undertaken by MacGregor Laird, esq. In connection with the British government, in 1854.

London, Church Missionary House, 1855.

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Journal of an Expedition up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers,

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The less well known account of William Baikie's (1825-1864) expedition up the Niger in 1854 on the steamship Pleiad sponsored by Macgregor Laird (1808-1861).

Samuel Ajayi Crowther (1808-1891) was a Yoruba Christian missionary who became the first African Anglican bishop of West Africa. He accompanied several expeditions along the Niger, including the one described in the present work, and was one of the founding pioneers of Christian missions in Nigeria.

First edition; 8vo (20.5 x 12.5 cm); folding map; publisher's original embossed blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt and embossed, discreet repair to upper joint, a very good copy; xxiii, 234 pp.

Howgego B6.

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First edition of Samuel Crowther's Journal of an Expedition up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers, his account of the 1854 expedition of the Pleiad up the Niger by Baikie.

Journal of an Expedition up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers,

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