The life story of a real early 19th century African, Pascoe, originally Abubakar, was a British navy seaman for 15 years. He then travelled extensively with a series of exploring expeditions. The first was with a colourful engineer, actor and pioneering discoverer of tombs and monuments of ancient Egyptian pharoahs. The second, after half died within a month, penetrated far into present day Nigeria, Pascoe's home country. Next he canoed with two brothers all down the river Niger to discover its then unknown end in a delta with outlets to the sea. The disastrous final one used newly-invented...
The life story of a real early 19th century African, Pascoe, originally Abubakar, was a British navy seaman for 15 years. He then travelled extensivel...
