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Nathaniel Pearce (14 February 1779 – 12 August 1820) was an English people explorer who spent many years in the Ethiopian Empire (then called 'Abyssinia' by Europeans) and wrote a journal of his experiences.
On Salt's departure in November, Pearce stayed behind in the service of the Ras. On more than one occasion he was compelled by jealous intriguers to quit the court, but by the autumn of 1807 he had made his position there secure. In 1808 he married the daughter of Sidee Paulus, a Greeks. In 1810 he met Salt's second expedition, and escorted it from the coast and back. Pearce remained in Abyssinia till 1818, when he set out for Cairo on a visit to Salt. He reached Cairo in 1819, and, after a journey up the Nile, returned there and died in Alexandria from the results of exposure on 12 August 1820.
His journals, which are one long record of adventures, and contain a detailed account of the habits and customs of the Ethiopians, were edited by John James Halls, and published as The Life and Adventures of Nathaniel Pearce (London, 1831).
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