A Voyage to Abyssinia

Published in 1735 this first edition of Samuel Johnson’s translation of Portuguese Jesuit Jerónimo Lobo’s A Voyage to Abyssinia is a harrowing account both “curious and entertaining” of Lobo’s misadventures in an effort to convert Abyssinians to orthodox Catholicism.. This 17th-century work is a unique work of both travel and religious writing where Father Lobo describes the nine years he spent in Abyssinia as a missionary.