Africa - Description and travel
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The admirable travels of Messieurs Thomas Jenkins and David Lowellin through the unknown tracts of Africa With he manner how Lowellin lived eight year on an uninhabited spot; and, having sustained many dangerous attacks from the wild beasts and savages, returned safe to London, in September, 1784, after having been fourteen-years in those extensive regions.
Lowellin, David, b. 1726.Date: [1786]- E-books
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The polite traveller: being a modern view of part of Germany, France, and Italy. Containing, A Description of Berlin. Anecdotes of the King of Prussia. Visit to Potsdam and Sans-Souci, Palaces of the King of Prussia. Particulars respecting the Prussian Military Exercise and Discipline. Character and personal Description of the King of Prussia. Short Account of Vienna. Anecdotes of two amiable Court Ladies. Particulars of a Dinner on Mount Calenberg. Description of a German Hunt. Character of the Emperor of Germany. Contrast of Character between the French and Germans. Comparison between English, French, and German Ladies. Remarks on French Manners and Opinions. Short Account of Geneva, its Government, and Inhabitants. The Genevois Military Feast. Journey to the Glaciers of Savoy. Account of the Coast of Naples. Particulars respecting Messina. Journey along the Coast of Sicily. Visit to Mount Aetna, &c. Embellished with an elegant Frontispiece
Date: [1783]- E-books
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Proceedings of the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa
African AssociationDate: 1790- E-books
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The admirable travels of Messrs. Thomas Jenkins and David Lowellin containing a Tour of 3000 Miles through the unknown Tracts of Africa; describing the manner how they were driven on the western Coast by a storm, Sept. 1. 1770, and taken Prisoners by some hundreds of Negroes, sold to an Indian Chief, carried to Court 500 miles inland, raised to great honours by the sovereign Prince, with their strange mode of obtaining leave to quite his Dominions. Together with the Manners, Customs, Fashions, Complexion of the Inhabitants, their Diet, Produce, Traffick, Wealth, and Religion; as also, the numerous wild Beasts, Serpents, Fowls, Hills, Mountains, Valleys, Rivers, Plains of the Country, lying between 16 South latitude, 21 East long. and the Equator. Likewise, Their mode of travelling, and loss of Jenkins through fatigue, in attempting to cross the extensive Sands; with the manner how D. Lowellin lived full five Years on an uninhabited Spot, and his providential Delivery on the 11th of April 1779, by a company of Merchants, who blindfolded his Eyes on the Journey, to prevent him from discovering the Situation of their Country. His elegant Account of their opulent Capital, and arrival at Grand Cairo in Egypt, on the 10th of May 1780, with his substance; and a short Account of some remarkable Things in Turkey, as taken on his return to Britain in September 1781.
Lowellin, David, b. 1726.Date: [1782]- E-books
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The admirable travels of Messieurs Thomas Jenkins and David Lowellin through the unknown tracts of Africa with the manner how Lowellin lived five years on an uninhabited spot; and, having sustained many dangerous Attacks from the wild Beasts and Savages, returned safe to London, in September, 1781, after having been eleven Years in those extensive Regions.
Lowellin, David, b. 1726.Date: [1783]