Abyssinian Journal

Item author: Mansfield Parkyns
Item date: 1843
Grant Value: 1,132
Item cost: 4,531
Item date acquired: 2001
Item institution: University of Nottingham
Town/City: Nottingham
County: Nottinghamshire

An autograph volume describing travels on the Upper Nile, three years residence in Ethiopia and return via Khartoum. Highly detailed on local cusoms and cultures: Parkyns married an Ethiopian during his travels. These notes were later written up as Life in Abyssinia, being Notes collected during three years residence and travel in that country, 1853. Grant from the Esme Fairbairn Charitable Trust

Item Provenance
Phillips, November 2001, Lot 497