General Report on the Province of Kordofan: Submitted to General C.P. Stone, Chief of the General Staff Egyptian Army, by Major H.G. Prout, Corps of Engineers, Commanding Expedition of Reconnaissance. Made at El-Obeiyad (Kordofan), March 12th, 1876

Prout, Major H.G.

dc.contributor.author	Prout, Major H.G.
dc.date.accessioned	2009-10-08T13:48:07Z
dc.date.available	2009-10-08T13:48:07Z
dc.date.issued	1877
dc.identifier.uri	http://digital-ub.uib.no/1956.2/2523
dc.identifier.uri	https://digitalt.uib.no/handle/1956.2/2523
dc.description	First Edition, with 7 lithographed plates and a folding diagram, 8vo., pp. xii, 210, [1], v [index], [1] [errata leaf], later half green morocco, a very good rare item.	en
dc.description	This copy is lacking the 4 folding maps. One of the most detailed reports on Kordofan available up to this time. The arrangement of the report is as follows: Part I. Geography, Topography and Inhabitants. Part II. Soil and Water-Supply. Part III. Products, Resources and Commerce. Part IV. Climate. “...he was second in command to R.E. Colston Bey on a reconnaissance if Kordofan, 1875, and took over command after Colston was invalided at al-Ubaiyad; he then led the expedition into Dar Fur; he made valuable reports on Kordofan and Dar Fur including the results of topographical surveys and astronomical observations; promoted qa’immaqam and transferred to Equatoria, he was governor of that province in 1876 in succession to C.G. Gordon Pasha who was appointed governor-general of the Sudan...” (Richard Hill, A Biographical Dictionary of the Sudan, London, 1967). Hill p. 72.	en
dc.language.iso	eng	en
dc.publisher	Printing Office of the General Staff, Cairo	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Publications of the Egyptian General-Staff	en
dc.title	General Report on the Province of Kordofan: Submitted to General C.P. Stone, Chief of the General Staff Egyptian Army, by Major H.G. Prout, Corps of Engineers, Commanding Expedition of Reconnaissance. Made at El-Obeiyad (Kordofan), March 12th, 1876	en
dc.type	Report	en