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A reliable account of the coast of Guinea (1760) / by Ludewig Ferdinand Rømer ; translated from the Danish and edited by Selena Axelrod Winsnes.
Penn Museum Library DT507 .R66 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rømer, Ludvig Ferdinand, 1714-1776.
- Series:
- Fontes historiae Africanae ; new ser. 3.
- Fontes historiae africanae ; new ser. 3
- Standardized Title:
- Tilforladelig efterretning om kysten Guinea. English
- Language:
- Danish
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ashanti (African people)--Ghana--History--18th century.
- Ashanti (African people).
- Ashanti (African people)--Ghana--Social life and customs.
- History.
- Commerce.
- Manners and customs.
- Africa, West--Commerce--Europe.
- Africa, West.
- Europe--Commerce--Africa, West.
- Europe.
- Ghana--History--18th century.
- Ghana.
- West Africa.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 290 pages, 7 pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- The first complete English translation of an important and sensitive account of the Gold Coast (modern Ghana) in the mid eighteenth century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-276) and index.
- ISBN:
- 019726218X
- OCLC:
- 44737405
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