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Discovery and Exploration of Africa – Collection
About 50 free Discovery and Exploration of Africa books at the Internet Archive. Some books: Exploration of Africa, Africa in the Days of Exploration, Livingstone and the Exploration of Central Africa, The European Exploration of Africa, Atlas of Exploration, The Saga of Exploration in Southern Africa, Stanley and Livingstone and the Exploration of Africa in World History, Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa, First Footsteps in East Africa, African Discovery: an anthology of exploration, With Stanley in Africa, many more.
Africa Description and Travel Books – Collection
About 150 free Africa Description and Travel Books at the Internet Archive. Some books: Illustrated Travel Guide to South Africa, Victorian Women Travel Writers in Africa, Sarah Anderson’s Travel Companion, Geldof in Africa, The Myth of Africa, Read this First: Africa, Lonely Planet East Arica, Geography of Modern Africa, Inside Africa, A Tourist in Africa, On Foot Through Africa, Africa and the Islands, A Passage to Africa, Travels in West Africa, Travels into the Interior of Africa, Focus on Africa, many more.
Accounts of 19th & Early 20th Century Africa – Collection
A Hathi Trust collection of 86 books about Africa, published from about 1800 to the early 20th Century, with a few exceptions. Most appear to be first-hand accounts by travelers or by Europeans living there.
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Vintage Books on Exploration and Travel in Africa
VINTAGE BOOKS – Famous Explorers in Africa – Travel in Africa
Jungle Portraits
Akely, Delia J.
MacMillan 1930
Contents: Our Primitive Neighbors – Apes and Mondeys – Elephants in the Fog – Congo Resthouses – Crocodiles – Flamingos of Lake Hannington – In Quest of the Pygmies – Jungle Rescue. Zoology–Africa. Hunting–Africa. Africa–Description and travel. Africa–Social life and customs.
Author: Delia Julia Akeley, commonly known by her nickname, Mickie, was an American explorer. She was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, a daughter of Irish immigrants. -Wikipedia.
In the Niger Country
Bindloss, Harold
Edinburgh: Blackwood 1898
Harold Edward Bindloss was an English novelist who wrote many adventure novels set in western Canada.
Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the Years 1822, 1823 and 1824
by Major Denham, Captain Clapperton, and the late Doctor Oudney, extending across the Great Desert to the tenth degree of northern latitude, and from Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the capital of the Fellatah Empire
Denham, Dixon and Clapperton, Hugh
John Murray 1826
Dixon Denham was an English soldier, explorer of West Central Africa, and ultimately Governor of Sierra Leone. Bain Hugh Clapperton was a Scottish naval officer and explorer of West and Central Africa. Walter Oudney was a Scottish physician, budding naturalist, and briefly an African explorer. -Wikipedia.
Travels in West Africa, Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons
Kingsley, Mary H.
MacMillan 1897
Mary Henrietta Kingsley was an English ethnographer, scientific writer, and explorer whose travels throughout West Africa and resulting work helped shape European perceptions of African cultures and British imperialism. -Wikipedia.
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Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries, and of the discovery of the lakes Shirwa and Nyassa 1858-1864
Livingstone, David and Charles
London: Murray 1865
David Livingstone was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era. -Wikipedia.
A Popular Account of Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
Livingstone, David, M.D.
London: Murray 1861
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Up the Niger. Narrative of Major Claude MacDonald’s Mission to the Niger and Benue Rivers, West Africa
to which is added a chapter on native musical instruments, by Cpt. C. R. Day
Mockler-Ferryman, A. F., Cpt.
London: Philip 1892
New Light on Dark Africa; Being the Narrative of the German Emin Pasha Expedition
Its Journeyings and Adventures among the Native Tribes of Eastern Equatorial Africa, the Gallas, Massais, Wasukuma, etc. etc. on the Lake Baringo and the Victoria Nyanza
Peters, Carl
London: Ward, Lock 1891
Carl Peters was a German colonial ruler, explorer, politician, and author, and a major promoter of the establishment of the German colony of East Africa. -Wikipedia.
Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
Speke, John Hanning
Blackwood 1863
First-hand account of the grueling expedition in East Africa by Speke and Richard Burton that made them famous.
John Hanning Speke was an English explorer and officer in the British Indian Army who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa. He is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile and was the first European to reach Lake Victoria. -Wikipedia.
Through Masai Land: A Journey of Exploration Among the Snowclad Volcanic Mountains and Strange Tribes of Eastern Equatorial Africa
Being the narrative of the Royal Geographical Society’s expedition to Mount Kenia and Lake Victoria Nyanza, 1883-1884
Thomson, Joseph
London: Sampson Low 1887
Joseph Thomson was a Scottish geologist and explorer who played an important part in the “Scramble for Africa” [Colonization of much of Africa in the late 19th Century by several European countries]. Thomson’s gazelle and Thomson’s Falls, Nyahururu, are named after him. -Wikipedia.