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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> As I made my discoveries alone I have been anxious to write my book by myself though in so doing the reader will consid- er me and with great propriety guilty of temerity but the pub- lic will perhaps gain in the fidelity of my narrative what it los- es in elegance. I am not an Englishman but I prefer that my readers should receive from myself as well as i am able to de- scribe them an account of my proceedings in Egypt in Nubia on the coast of the Red Sea and in the Oasis; rather than run the risk of having my meaning misrepresented by another. If 1 am intelligible it is all that I can expect. I shall state nothing but the plain matters of fact as they occurred to me in these coun- tries in 1815-16-17-18 and 19. A description of the means 1 took in making my researches the difficulties I had to en- counter and how I overcame them will give a tolerably correct idea of the manners and customs of the people I had to deal with. Perhaps I have spoken too much of the obstacles thrown in my way by the jealousy and intriguing spirit of my adver- saries without considering that the public will care little about my private quarrels which to me of course appeared of the greatest consequence on the spot in these countries But I hope that a little indulgence maybe allowed to my mortified feelings. (SP)