To the Gold Coast for Gold by Richard Francis Burton, Verney ... - 9781108031431

To the Gold Coast for GoldA Personal Narrative\nAuthor(s): Richard Francis Burton, Verney Lovett Cameron\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108031431, 978-1108031431\nSynopsis\nFirst published in 1883, this travel memoir chronicles the journey into West Africa undertaken by explorers Richard Burton [tel] and Verney Lovett Cameron [tel] in 1881. The mission for the two men was to assess the mining potential of the west coast, first observed by Burton in a publication that had appeared twenty years earlier. Volume 2 starts with the men in Sierra Leone and describes the journey to Axim, 'the gold port of the past and the future' in Ghana. The subsequent chapters describe various expeditions made out of Axim and the examination of some mines. The journey was cut short by the Foreign Office, who feared for the safety of the two explorers. Burton returned to Europe with a large collection of plant and.