Henry Salt

In which are Included an Account of the Portuguese Settlements on the East Coast of Africa ; a Concise Narrative of Late Events in Arabia Felix ; and Some Particulars Respecting the Aboriginal African Tribes Extending from Mosambique to the Borders of Egypt ; Together with Vocabularies of Their Respective Languages,...

A Voyage to Abyssinia, and Travels Into the Interior of that Country, Executed Under the Orders of the British Government, in the Years 1809 and 1810

Henry S. Salt, raffinato biografo inglese guidato da un profondo animo thoreauviano, concepì quest’opera sulla vita di Thoreau a pochi anni dalla morte del grande poeta-naturalista, quando ancora la popolarità dell’autore di Walden non aveva varcato i confini che separavano la sua Concord, Massachusetts, dal resto del pianeta. E se oggi Thoreau può essere giustamente considerato una delle figure più importanti e rappresentative del pensiero americano dell’Ottocento, lo si deve anche a Salt e a questo libro, puntuale raffigurazione di uno spirito libero, fervente antischiavista, individualista e trascendentalista critico, vegetariano e animalista nell’accezione primitiva eppure modernissima dei termini. Salt ricostruisce ogni aspetto della vita terrena di Thoreau – ambiente, famiglia, isolamento, dubbi, esperimenti, insuccessi e fortune – difendendolo dalle ingiuste accuse di molti contemporanei e allo stesso tempo non mancando di evidenziarne difetti e debolezze. Un ritratto di un’onestà rara e lucida, talmente lucida da azzardare la previsione – impensabile nel 1896 – che «il genio di Thoreau finirà per essere considerato almeno pari a quello di Emerson».

Hanry David Thoreau

A Voyage to Abyssinia, and Travels Into the Interior of That Country, Executed Under the Orders of the British Government, in the Years 1809 and 1810; in which are included, an Account of the Portuguese Settlements on the East Coast of Africa, Visited in the Course of the Voyage; a Concise Narrative of Late Events in Arabia Felix; and some Particulars Respecting the Aboriginal African Tribes, Extending from Mosambique to the Borders of Egypt; together with Vocabularies of their respective Language.

A Voyage to Abyssinia

Executed Under the Orders of the British Government, in the Years 1809 and 1810 ...

A Voyage to Abyssinia and Travels Into the Interior of that Country

Deborah Manley

Patricia Usick

In 2002 a two-volume manuscript memoir on the Pyramids and Sphinx, by Henry Salt, was rediscovered in the archives of the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, at the British Museum. It was then studied in depth for the first time. The Text volume, written by Salt, the British Consul General in Egypt from 1816 until his death there in 1827, relates the results of work carried out by Captain Caviglia in 1816-18 in the Giza necropolis area on Salt's behalf. The Atlas volume contains 66 original drawings by Salt, showing the first modern excavation of the Sphinx and illustrates their discoveries beneath the Sphinx, in the Great Pyramid and among the surrounding tombs. These drawings include an annotated ground plan of the Giza necropolis which, for the first time, elucidates their discoveries. Salt also made accurate and important early copies of hieroglyphic and Greek inscriptions found during the Sphinx excavations and recorded the massive Roman stairway that was later cleared away. The work also enables us to illustrate and provenance certain pieces which came to the Museum through Salt and Caviglia.

A Forgotten Record of Pioneering Excavations

The Sphinx Revealed

The Life and Correspondence of Henry Salt ... Consul General in Egypt

Henry Salt

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