• Camel caravan approaching the Kassala mountains on the cover of Life in the Soudan by Josiah Williams
  • Portrait of Josiah Williams from the original 1884 edition
  • Original 1884 illustration of Suakin in Sudan
  • Original 1884 illustration of Hadendowah Arab camel-men
  • Original 1884 illustration of Kassala Mountain
  • Original illustration of Josiah Williams attending to Arab ailments
  • Original 1884 illustration of a mountain pass near Sanhit
  • Original 1884 illustration of the causeway at Massawa
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Josiah Williams

Life in the Soudan

Life in the Soudan

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“I was bound for the Soudan, and had arranged to meet my party at Brindisi on the 21st of November.”

“In November, 1881, I left England to accompany six gentlemen on an exploring expedition in the Soudan.”

RESTORED ILLUSTRATED EPUB · SEVEN ORIGINAL PLATES

Doctor and former army surgeon Josiah Williams joins an 1881–1882 expedition from Egypt into eastern Sudan. His journal follows the party through Suakin, Kassala, the desert and the borderlands, combining demanding travel, medical encounters, wildlife and firsthand observations of places then rarely described in English.

This Nile Book Store edition includes:
the complete 26-chapter English text; all seven genuine illustrations from the 1884 edition; clean reflowable typography; linked contents; and a new Sudan-specific cover.

Illustration preview: The gallery presents genuine plates from the 1884 book, including the author, Suakin, Hadendowah camel-men, Kassala Mountain, medical work, a mountain pass near Sanhît and the Massawa causeway.

Historical context: This nineteenth-century European travel account contains dated language and viewpoints concerning ethnicity, religion, gender, hunting, slavery and colonial rule. It is preserved unabridged for historical and research value.

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Author: Josiah Williams · First edition: 1884

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