Expedition to Surinam

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Expedition to Surinam
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Expedition to Surinam

Captain John Gabriel Stedman
Edition year 1963
Binding Cloth
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 242
Dimensions 25.3 × 16 cm

Edition details

Expedition to Surinam by Captain John Gabriel Stedman. Edited and abridged by Christopher Bryant. 12 leaves of engravings from the earliest edition (some made by William Blake). Full pale yellow canvas binding with an illustrative design in green. Endleaves with a map in dark green. 25.3x16 cm. 242pp.

About the book

John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of an Expedition to Surinam records his experiences in the Dutch colony of Surinam during the 1770s, where he served with troops fighting Maroon communities of escaped enslaved people. His account describes military campaigns, tropical landscapes, colonial society and the brutal realities of slavery. It is an important, complex eyewitness source for the history of Surinam, Atlantic slavery and European colonialism.

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