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	Thomas Edward Bowdich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bowdich publicly attacked the management of the African committee, and his strictures were instrumental in leading the British government to assume direct control over the Gold Coast.
		From 1820 to 1822 Bowdich lived in Paris, studying mathematics and the natural sciences, and was on intimate terms with Georges Cuvier, Humboldt and other savants.
		Bowdich's daughter, Mrs Hutchinson Hale, republished in 1873, with an introductory preface, her father's Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Edward_Bowdich (362 words)

	Thomas Edison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Thomas Alva Edison's ancestors, the Dutch Edisons, emigrated to New Jersey in 1730.
		Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847 in Milan, Ohio, to Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr.
		Thomas Edison was a freethinker, and was most likely a deist, claiming he did not believe in "the God of the theologians," but did not doubt that "there is a Supreme Intelligence," which put him in line with Baruch Spinoza.
	en.orangehedgehog.com /content/Thomas_Edison (2891 words)

	Bowdich, Thomas Edward - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Bowdich, Thomas Edward
		His book provides the first detailed account of the thriving Ashanti kingdom, with descriptions of its customs and culture, the royal court, and the capital of Kumasi.
		Bowdich also wrote vocabularies of the various languages he encountered, and made notations of traditional music.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Bowdich,+Thomas+Edward (213 words)

	Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, with a statistical account of that kingdom, and geographical notices of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		BOWDICH, THOMAS EDWARD: Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, with a statistical account of that kingdom, and geographical notices of other parts of the interior of Africa.
		In 1814 Bowdich obtained a writership in the service of the African Company of Merchants and was sent to Cape Coast.
		After returning to England in 1818, Bowdich wrote and published this work (1819), the earliest European account of the Asante at the height of their power and splendour.
	www.antiqbook.com /boox/dur/39028.shtml (294 words)

	Bowdich Family Crest
		The name Bowdich is of Anglo-Saxon origin and came from when the family lived in the settlement of Bowditch, an estate in the county of Dorset.
		In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany...
		In the Bowdich coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/bowdich-family-crest.htm?a=54323-224 (474 words)

	Hordern House
		FORREST, Thomas A Voyage to New Guinea, and the Moluccas, from Balambangan...
		KENDALL, Rev. Thomas and Samuel LEE A Grammar and Vocabulary of the Language of New Zealand.
		MACARTHUR, Major Edward Colonial Policy of 1840 and 1841 as illustrated by the Governor's Despatches, and Proceedings of the Legislative Council of New South Wales.
	www.polybiblio.com /hordern (8335 words)

	European Travel Accounts of Africa - Bryn Mawr College Library
		Edward Bowdich, for example, was motivated to explore the continent as a naturalist, but also as an entrepreneur attempting to establish trade agreements.
		To which is prefix'd, an exact map of the whole coast of Guinea, that was not in the original.
		Bowdich, I. A narrative of the continuance of the voyage to its completion...
	www.brynmawr.edu /Library/speccoll/guides/travel/africa.html (2863 words)

	Africa & Slavery, Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Antiquarian Booksellers
		- Bowdich (1791-1824) was appointed conductor of a mission to Ashantee organised by the African Company and, using considerable diplomatic and negotiating skils, succeeded in forming a treaty with the king of Ashantee, bringing peace to the British settlement along the Gold Coast.
		Volume I: The Danish in Tranquebar, India 1616-1845 and on the Goldcoast, West Africa; Volume II: The Danish in the West Indies, St. Thomas, St. Jan, St. Croix, 1702-1917.
		In 1786, on his way back, he describes the voyage from Africa to the Danish West Indies with a cargo of 452 fls who rose against the whites on the second day at sea, with a resulting loss of 34 of their number and 2 of the crew wounded after a heated battle.
	www.gertjanbestebreurtje.com /catlists/cat116.html (14239 words)

	1819 Bowdich ASHANTE KINGDOM Mission - AFRICA
		Description: Author: BOWDICH, Thomas Edward Title: Mission From Cape Coast Castle To Ashantee, With A Statistical Account Of That Kingdom, And Geographical Notices Of Other Parts Of The interior Of Africa.
		Notes: First edition of Bowdich's account of his mission to Asante (Ashantee) which now is part of Ghana.
		After returning to England in 1818, Bowdich wrote and published this work, which is the earliest European account of the Asante at the height of their power and splendour.
	www.antiqnet.com /detail,1819-bowdich-ashante,762212.html (280 words)

	Akan Cultural Symbols Bibliogrphy
		Bosman, W. A new and accurate description of the coast of Guinea.
		Bowdich, T. Mission from Cape Coast to Ashantee.
		Gallant, Thomas W. Turning the horns: Cultural metaphors, material conditions, and the peasant language of resistance in Ionian Islands (Greece) during the nineteenth century.
	www.marshall.edu /akanart/akanartbiblio.html (1498 words)

	Bibliography of Contemporary Responses - Features - Quarterly Review Archive - Scholarly Resources, Romantic Circles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Parga and the Ionian Islands; comprehending a refutation of the mis-statements of the Quarterly Review and of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Thomas Maitland, on the subject; with a report of the trial between that officer and the author.
		[response to #524]; Item in British Library online Manuscripts catalogue: REPLY of Thomas Edward Bowdich, conductor of the Ashantee Mission, to an article in the Quarterly Review of March, 1820, upon his published account of the Mission and his pamphlet on the same subject, 1819.
		Third edition, with corrections: To which are now first added, the letter to Thomas Campbell as far as regards poetical criticism, and the answer to the writer in the Quarterly Review, as far as they relate to the same subject.
	www.rc.umd.edu /reference/qr/features/contemporary_responses.html (2268 words)

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		BOWDICH, T.E. Excursions dans les Isles de Madère et de Porto-Santo, faites dans l'automne de 1823, pendant son troisième Voyage en Afrique.
		Thomas Edward Bowdich (1791-1824) was a famous African traveller.
		He became very well aquainted with Cuvier and Von Humboldt.
	antiquariaatjunk.com /php/search.php3?Subjects=Africa&CatTitle=Africa (1233 words)

	Voyager Press Rare Books, ABAC / ILAB
		ASHE, Thomas Travels in America, Performed in the year 1806: for the Purpose of Exploring the Rivers Alleghany, Monongahela, Ohio, and Mississippi, and Ascertaining the Produce and Condition of Their Banks and Vicinity.
		BOWDICH, Thomas Edward An Account of the Discoveries of the Poruguese in the Interior of Angola and Mozambique to Which is Added a Note By the Author, on a Geographical Error of Mungo Park, in His Last Journey to the Interior of Africa London John Boothe 1824
		FORESTER, Thomas Rambles in Norway among the Fjelds and Fjords of the Central and Western Districts: With Remarks on its Political, Military, Ecclesiastical, and Social Organization.
	polybiblio.com /milenium (11737 words)

	Pioneer Books Lists
		Head and foot of spine rubbed, and the foot a little worn; nearly half of the rear board dampstained, affecting part of the spine; frontispiece in facsimile; otherwise good copy.
		Chip to head of front wrapper at the head of the spine, and other minor signs of use to the wrappers otherwise a very good copy.
		A child’s inscription printed untidily at head of front fixed endpaper otherwise about fine in somewhat worn price-clipped dust-jacket which has an old tape repair to a clean tear right across its front panel.
	www.secondhandbookshop.com /lists/F16.html (9812 words)

	David G. Hyatt - Gourd Banjos - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		He found a variety of cultures, some heavily influenced by Muslim invaders.
		Eileen Southern, in Readings in Black American Music, quotes Thomas Edward Bowdich, who traveled to Africa in 1819:
		The most interesting instrument found in recent years is the Akonting, still in use by the Jola tribe in Gambia.
	www.dhyatt.com /history.html (185 words)

	Encyclopedia: Index
		Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester of Holkham
		Thomas la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr
		Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends (video game)
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	Microform Academic Publishers Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee : with a statistical account of that kingdom, ...
		Microform Academic Publishers Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee : with a statistical account of that kingdom, and geographical notices of other parts of the interior of Africa / by T. Edward Bowdich
		Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee : with a statistical account of that kingdom, and geographical notices of other parts of the interior of Africa / by T. Edward Bowdich
		Statistical and geographical survey of Ghana's coast and parts of the interior.
	www.microform.co.uk /academic/itemdetails.php?ref=F02971 (97 words)

	Science in the 19th Century Periodical
		Lee (née Wallis, formerly Bowdich), Sarah (1791–1856) WBI
		Liddell, Henry Thomas, 1st Earl Ravensworth (1797–1878) DNB
		Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–73) DNB
	www.sciper.org /browse/nam_l.html (310 words)

	Microform Academic Publishers Excursions in Africa / T.E. Bowdich
		Microform Academic Publishers Excursions in Africa / T.E. Bowdich
		Includes notes on the 3rd African voyage of T.E. Bowdich, head of the mission to Ashantee, on Maderia and Porto Santo, the English settlements on the River Gambia, and much zoological and botanical data.
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	www.microform.co.uk /academic/itemdetails.php?ref=F02978 (63 words)

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