NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Denham, Dixon, 1786-1828 NRA: Denham, Dixon (1786-1828) African Traveller DNB: Denham, Dixon (1786-1828), explorer in Africa LBT ID: DiDenha1828 VIAF ID: 10628443 LOC ID: nr2002016782 | B/BAP: 1786-01-01 DIED: 1828-06-09 |
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After service in the Peninsular War and at Sandhurst he led an expedition to Africa,
1822-25; he published Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern
and Central Africa (1826). | |
REFERENCES TO WORKS BY Dixon Denham:
Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the
Years 1822, 1823 and 1824, by Major Denham, Captain Clapperton, and the late Doctor Oudney,
extending across the Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of Northern Latitude, and from Kouka
in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Fellatah Empire: with an Appendix. Found 1.
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Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the
Years 1822, 1823 and 1824, by Major Denham, Captain Clapperton, and the late Doctor Oudney,
extending across the Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of Northern Latitude, and from Kouka
in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Fellatah Empire: with an Appendix. Found 2.
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