Setting out from Aden in 1854, Burton crossed to the Somali port of Zayla and travelled inland, partly in disguise, to the walled city of Harar, closed to Europeans. He records the Somali clans and their customs, the prairies and hills along the way, the Emir’s court and the Harari language, with his habitual flood of learned footnotes.
Burton at his most daring and most opinionated, an essential book of the Horn of Africa and its exploration. Download the free EPUB.