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Rules and processes : the cultural logic of dispute in an African context.
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ISBN: 0226114244 9780226114255 0226114252 Year: 1981 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago press

Of revelation and revolution
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ISBN: 0226114422 0226114414 0226114430 0226114449 9780226114422 9780226114446 9780226114439 9780226114415 Year: 1991 Publisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press,


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A voyage to Cochinchina, in the years 1792 and 1793 : containing a general view of the valuable productions and the political importance of this flourishing kingdom
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ISBN: 1316163326 1108082130 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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A staunch supporter of exploration, Sir John Barrow (1764-1848) backed expeditions to Africa, Australia, the Arctic and the Antarctic during his forty-year tenure as Second Secretary to the Admiralty. In his early career, he served as an aide to the diplomat Lord Macartney, joining him on his 1792-4 embassy to China, and during his later governorship of the Cape of Good Hope. Barrow was a prolific author, setting new standards of detail and accuracy for travel writing. In this 1806 account, he recounts the embassy's journey to Cochinchina (now Vietnam) via Brazil and Java. In one of the first illustrated accounts of the country in English, Barrow applies his boundless curiosity and elegant style to history, politics, local customs, and the flora and fauna. His autobiography and several other volumes of his travel writing are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.

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