1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003352289707536

Autore

Niccodemi, Dario

Titolo

Tempo passato / Dario Niccodemi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : F.lli Treves, 1929

Descrizione fisica

237 p. : ill. ; 19 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966808203321

Titolo

African-American exploration in West Africa : four nineteenth-century diaries / / edited by James Fairhead ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2003

ISBN

0-253-11004-1

0-253-10028-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xii, 488 p. : ill., maps

Altri autori (Persone)

SimsJames L

SeymourGeorge L

AndersonBenjamin J. K. <b. 1834.>

FairheadJames <1962->

Disciplina

916.66204/2/092396073

Soggetti

African Americans - Liberia - History - 19th century

African Americans - Liberia

African Americans - Guinea - History - 19th century

African Americans - Guinea

Liberia Discovery and exploration

Guinea Discovery and exploration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-450) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Liberia of the journeys -- Journeys in the interior -- James L. Sims, 1858 -- George L. Seymour, 1858 -- Benjamin Anderson, 1868-69 -- Benjamin Anderson, 1874 -- The journeys and the interior.

Sommario/riassunto

In the 1860s, as America waged civil war, several thousand African Americans sought greater freedom by emigrating to the fledgling nation of Liberia. While some argued that the new black republic represented disposal rather than emancipation, a few intrepid men set out to explore their African home. African-American Exploration in West Africa collects the travel diaries of James L. Sims, George L. Seymour, and Benjamin J. K. Anderson, who explored the territory that is now Liberia and Guinea between 1858 and 1874. These remarkable diaries reveal the wealth and beauty of Africa in striking descriptions of its geography, people, flora, and fauna. The dangers of the journeys surface, too--Seymour was attacked and later died of his wounds, and his companion, Levin Ash, was captured and sold into slavery again. Challenging the notion that there were no black explorers in Africa, these diaries provide unique perspectives on 19th-century Liberian life and life in the interior of the continent before it was radically changed by European colonialism.