Author: Mungo Park
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Author: Mungo Park
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ISBN: 9780162275904
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 668

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Languages : en
Pages : 858

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288

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Author: Mary H. Kingsley
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Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 842

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As a dutiful Victorian daughter, the author was thirty before being freed (by her parents' deaths) to do as she chose. She went to West Africa in 1893 and again in 1895, to investigate the beliefs and customs of the inland tribes and also to collect zoological specimens. She was appalled by the 'thin veneer of rubbishy white culture' imposed by British officials and was not afraid to say so.

Author: Lurton Dunham Ingersoll
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Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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David Livingstone (1813-73) was a Scottish missionary and medical doctor who explored much of the interior of Africa. In a remarkable journey in 1853-56, he became the first European to cross the African continent. Starting on the Zambezi River, he traveled north and west across Angola to reach the Atlantic at Luanda. On his return journey he followed the Zambezi to its mouth on the Indian Ocean in present-day Mozambique. Livingstone's most famous expedition was in 1866-73, when he explored central Africa in an attempt to find the source of the Nile. Not heard from for years, he was believed lost. Both the Royal Geographical Society and the sensationalist New York Herald organized expeditions to find him. Henry M. Stanley (1841-1904), a British-born reporter who was to become a noted explorer in his own right, led the Herald's expedition. On November 10, 1871, Stanley found Livingstone in the town of Ujiji, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, in present-day Tanzania. News of the discovery caused a worldwide sensation. This book, which appeared in Chicago in 1872, was part of the effort by publishers to capitalize on the demand from the public for information about Livingstone and Stanley and about Africa in general.

Author: David Livingstone
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
ISBN: 1461661129
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 656

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During his travels as a missionary, David Livingstone beheld many previously unknown wonders of the African interior. He put Victoria Falls and Lake Ngami on the map, and was the first white man to cross the African continent. Diaries, reports and letters are combined to create a wonderful narration of Livingstone's travels in a widely unknown continent. Included in this harrowing tale is Livingstone's narrow escape from a lion's wrath, his negotiations with an African chief, and his account of the Portuguese slave traders brutally punishing slaves after their attempt to escape. The Life and African Explorations of Livingstone also reveals Livingstone's deeply-rooted Christian beliefs and the strength he took from them, strength that allowed him to live and thrive amid the hardships of equatorial Africa.

Author: Wilson Armistead
Publisher: Greenwood
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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Author: J. D. Fage
Publisher: Madison, Wis. : African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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