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The Amber City: Being Some Account of the Adventures of a Steam Crocodile in Central Africa

By: Thomas Vetch
ISBN: 9798390249260
$19.00
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This 1889 English colonial novel describes the adventures of a party of Englishmen who travel up the Congo and Kasai Rivers in what was then the Congo Free State, to rescue a party of Portuguese traders held captive by an African tribe, in a city build of amber. Featuring outlandish technologies, including a steam-powered, armored ship, and published under a pseudonym (Thomas Vetch), the text is the work of the pioneering electrotherapist, biomedical engineer and occultist Arthur Edmund Baines (1855-c. 1935), and sheds light on Baines' early career as a cartographer and telegraphy engineer, working in Africa, as well as on his time as an editor of English trade periodicals for electrical engineers.
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