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The Life and Correspondence of Henry Salt, Esq.: Volume 2: His Britannic Majesty's Late Consul General in Egypt

The Life and Correspondence of Henry Salt, Esq.: Volume 2: His Britannic Majesty's Late Consul General in Egypt

Halls, John James

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Series: Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies

African History

ISBN10: 1108074685
ISBN13: 9781108074681
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: May 8 2014
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.27
Height: 1.02 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The traveller and antiquary Henry Salt (1780-1827) hoped to become a portrait painter, but recognised his own limitations, and instead entered the employment of Viscount Valentia, embarking with him on an eastern tour in 1802. In 1805, Valentia sent him on a mission to improve relations with the rulers of Abyssinia. After a second expedition, this time on behalf of the British government, in which he made observations and collections of the local flora and fauna, he was appointed consul-general to Egypt, and in his spare time carried out excavations at Thebes and Abu Simbel. This two-volume work was published in 1834 by Salt's close friend, the painter J. J. Halls (1776-1853). Volume 2 describes Salt's later career in Egypt, as a diplomat and especially as a pioneering archaeologist, as well as his negotiations over the future of his own spectacular collection of Egyptian artefacts.

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