Travels through the interior of Africa : from the Cape of Good Hope to Morocco : in Caffraria, the Kingdoms of Mataman, Angola, Massi, Monoemugi, Muschako, Bahahara, Wangara, Haoussa, &c., &c. and thence through the desert of Sahara and the north of Barbary to Morocco. Between the years 1781 and 1797 / by Christian Frederick Damberger ; with a new map, and several coloured plates ; faithfully translated from the German.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taurinius, Zacharias, pseud?, author.

Series:

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Voyages, Imaginary.

Genre:

Voyages, Imaginary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 544 pages) : color illustrations, folded map.

Manufacture:

London : Printed for R. Phillips, and sold by T. Hurst, and J. Wallis, by Elphinstons Balfour, 1801.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1801]

Language Note:

Translated from German.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

"The translated preface" dated: London, Dec. 13, 1800.

Numbers 237-256 omitted in paging.

Plates colored by hand.

One of three fictitious voyages, written with the assistance of one "Magister Junge", the other two of which were published under the pseudonyms Joseph Schrödter and Zacharias Taurinius. For a discussion of the authorship, compare Neue allgemeine deutsche bibliothek, volume 58, pages 442-459.

"Of the construction of the map" (pages 537-544)--signed: C.F. Goldbach.

Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.

OCLC:

681380554

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.