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LYON, Captain G.F.
A Narrative of Travels in Northern Africa, in the Years 1818, 19, and 20; accompanied by Geographical Notices of Soudan, and of the Course of the Niger
George Francis Lyon was a British naval officer and an explorer of both the Arctic and North Africa. In 1818 he was sent to find the course of the Niger River and the location of Timbuktu. The underfunded and poorly supported expedition left Tripoli and headed off across the Libyan Desert, part of the Sahara. The expedition was generally seen as a failure but his work is a beautifully illustrated account of a little-known area of the world. Lyon took a genuine interest, rare at the time, in the native peoples he saw. Wearing Arab/Muslim dress and learning fluent Arabic he managed to blend in with the inhabitants of North Africa.
- Published
- London: John Murray, Abermarle Street, 1821.
- References
- Abbey Travel I 304; Tooley 311; Bobins I 104. Blackmer 1044; Playfair Tripoli 147; Colas 1920.
- Plates
- 17
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: John Murray, Abermarle Street, 1821.
- Ref
- 1223
FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. xii, 383, 17 colour plates, large folding map. A very good copy bound in contemporary calf, panelled in gilt, stamped in blind, neatly re-backed to match. Spine panelled and lettered in gilt, marbled edges, and endpapers. Bookplate to front pastedown of "George Savage Curtis." The author took part in the battle of Algiers in 1816. This work is an account of his journeys, illustrated with plates of sports, costumes, etc. The work was also translated into French. Colour plates in order: 1. Frontis. Costume of Tripoli. (female) 2. Costume of Tripoli. (male) 3. Triumphal Arch. Tripoli. 4. Arabs Exercising. 5. The Castle of Bonjem. 6. A Sand Wind on the Desert. 7. Piper and Dancer, Tripoli / Dancing Woman, Sockna. 8. The Castle of Morzouk. 9. Tuarick in a shirt of leather / Tuarick of Aghades. 10. Tuaricks of Ghraat. 11. Costume of Soudan. 12. Negresses of Soudan. 13. Tibboo Woman in full dress. 14. Tibboo of Gatrone. 15. A Tuarick on his Maherrie. 16. Camel conveying a Bride to her Husband. 17. A Slave Kaffle.
