Bowdich, Thomas Edward. 1819. "Mission From Cape Coast Castle To Ashantee: with a Statistical Account of That Kingdom, and Geographical Notices of Other Parts of the Interior of Africa." x, 512. John Murray.
ELP ID
34394
Source type
book
Address
London
Author
Bowdich, Thomas Edward
Geofield
POINT (-0.127586 51.507218)
Geo Location
51.5072178, -0.1275862
Free Text Citation
Bowdich, Thomas Edward. 1819. "Mission From Cape Coast Castle To Ashantee: with a Statistical Account of That Kingdom, and Geographical Notices of Other Parts of the Interior of Africa." x, 512. John Murray.
Year
1819
Note
Includes brief specimens of several languages, e.g. the first known vocabulary of Yoruba (Hair 1967). Reprinted and heavily abridged (292 p.) in 1873 as «Mission from Cape Coast to Ashantee, with a descriptive account of that kingdom», published by Griffith & Farran in London, with an introduction by Bowdich’s daughter, Mrs Hal.
Pages
x, 512
Publisher
John Murray