TRAVELS THROUGH THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA from the Cape of Good Hope to Morocco; in Caffraria, the Kingdom of Mataman, Angola, Massi, Monoemugi, Muschako, Bahahara, Wangara, Haoussa, Etc, Etc., and thence through the Desert of Sahara and the north of Barbary to Morocco, between the years 1781 and 1797
Author:	Damberger (C.F.)
Subject:	EXPLORATION AND TRAVEL
Published:	Printed for R. Phillips, London
Date:	1801
Price($):	$750.00
Price(£):	£430.00
Details:	xxii + 544 pages, 8vo (215 x 140 mm), hand coloured engraved frontispiece, 2 hand coloured plates, folding map repaired, contemporary full sprinkled calf worn at extremities, contents free of foxing
Catalogue Number:	25
Book Number:	#2396/1
Description:	Mendelssohn 1.408: 'One of the cleverest volumes of fabricated travel ever produced. The details are so circumstantial, and the mixture of fact and fiction is accomplished with so much skill, that it is not uncommon to find people who do not know that the account of the travels is nothing more than a well-contrived literary deception ... The fraud was exposed by Isaac D'Israeli in his "Curiosities of Literature" and he observed, "Damberger's travels ... made a great sensation and the public were duped; they proved to be the ideal voyages of a member of the German Grub Street about his own garret."'
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