A voyage to Abyssinia

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"Samuel Johnson's first book, A Voyage to Abyssinia (1735), was an English translation of Joachim Le Grand's French version of the manuscript account of the travels to Abyssinia of Father Jerónimo Lobo, a seventeenth-century Portuguese Jesuit missionary."--Introduction (page xxiii)

subjects: Date palm,  Description and travel,  Early works to 1800,  History,  Modern Civilization,  Mythical Animals,  Prester John (Legendary character),  Travel,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  Books,  Reviews,  Social life and customs,  Politics and government,  Christian converts,  Jesuits

People: Jerónimo Lobo (1596?-1678)

Places: Africa,  Ethiopia,  Nile River,  Red Sea

Times: 1490-1889,  18th century