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Book Synopsis Travels in West Africa by : Mary H. Kingsley
Download or read book Travels in West Africa written by Mary H. Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Travels in Western Africa, in 1845 & 1846 by : John Duncan
Download or read book Travels in Western Africa, in 1845 & 1846 written by John Duncan and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis West African Studies by : Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Download or read book West African Studies written by Mary Henrietta Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa by : Mungo Park
Download or read book Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa written by Mungo Park and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Travels in the Interior of Africa by : Mungo Park
Download or read book Travels in the Interior of Africa written by Mungo Park and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Uncommon Traveler written by Don Brown and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003-08-25 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Kingsley spent her childhood in a small house on a lonely lane outside London, England. Her mother was bedridden, her father rarely home, and Mary served as housekeeper, handyman, nursemaid, and servant. Not until she was thirty years old did Mary get her chance to explore the world she’d read about in her father’s library. In 1893, she arrived in West Africa, where she encountered giant Xying insects, crocodiles, hippos, and brutal heat. Mary endured the hardships of the equatorial country—and thrived.
Book Synopsis Travels in the Interior of Africa by : Mungo Park
Download or read book Travels in the Interior of Africa written by Mungo Park and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa by : Francis Galton
Download or read book Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa written by Francis Galton and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis One Dry Season by : Caroline Alexander
Download or read book One Dry Season written by Caroline Alexander and published by Orion. This book was released on 1993 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 100 years ago Mary Henrietta Kingsley made a journey to Africa about which she wrote on her return in Travels in West Africa. In this blend of historical sleuthing and travel writing, Caroline Alexander describes the effect on her of reading Kingsley's book and her decision to make her own journey in Kingsley's footsteps, following her path as closely as possible. Staying at Catholic missions, travelling by pirogue through waterways and rapids, she encounters the ghosts of Trader Horn, Albert Schweitzer and Dr Robert Nasau. But contact with the past gives way to adventures which might have amazed Miss Kingsley.
Book Synopsis Travel in the White Man's Grave by : Donald MacIntosh
Download or read book Travel in the White Man's Grave written by Donald MacIntosh and published by Little Brown GBR. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Posted to Nigeria in 1954, the author, a Scottish forester, spent the next thirty years traveling through the "white man's grave"--The vast, mysterious, primeval forests of West and Central Africa. He heard tales of ancient Africa from the lips of hunters, fishermen and witch doctors; encountered the incredible creatures of the forest, from the magficent leopard to the homicidal buffalo;and befriended a range of remarkable and eccentric characters such as "Old Man Africa"," Magic T. Sperm", "Famous Sixpence" and "Pisspot". With the forests now sadly decimated, this is a rare, poignant and sometimes hilarious glimpse into Africa's vanished past.
Download or read book A Fistful of Shells written by Toby Green and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies of Europe and the Islamic world for nearly a millennium, and the sophisticated kingdoms spanning its west coast had traded with Europeans since the fifteenth century. Until at least 1650, this was a trade of equals, using a variety of currencies—most importantly, cowrie shells imported from the Maldives and nzimbu shells imported from Brazil. But, as the slave trade grew, African kingdoms began to lose prominence in the growing global economy. We have been living with the effects of this shift ever since. With A Fistful of Shells, Toby Green transforms our view of West and West-Central Africa by reconstructing the world of these kingdoms, which revolved around trade, diplomacy, complex religious beliefs, and the production of art. Green shows how the slave trade led to economic disparities that caused African kingdoms to lose relative political and economic power. The concentration of money in the hands of Atlantic elites in and outside these kingdoms brought about a revolutionary nineteenth century in Africa, parallel to the upheavals then taking place in Europe and America. Yet political fragmentation following the fall of African aristocracies produced radically different results as European colonization took hold. Drawing not just on written histories, but on archival research in nine countries, art, oral history, archaeology, and letters, Green lays bare the transformations that have shaped world politics and the global economy since the fifteenth century and paints a new and masterful portrait of West Africa, past and present.
Book Synopsis Going Home to Africa by : Dot Bekker
Download or read book Going Home to Africa written by Dot Bekker and published by National Archives of Zimbabwe. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dot Bekker was born and raised in Bulawayo in the south-west of Zimbabwe. After thirty-eight years away ¬- twenty of those in Europe - she decided to return to the country of her birth; however rather than hop on a plane, Dot chose to drive there: all by herself at the age of sixty, in a twenty-year-old 2WD Ford Transit van that she converted into her home. Dot spent eight and a half months covering 20,000km of some of the toughest overlanding routes in the world, through West and Central Africa. This is her story.Follow Dot's extraordinary 20,000km adventure in her first book, Going Home to Africa, where she describes the ups and downs she faced over the course of her grand expedition: the countries, the people, insane traffic, corrupt borders, marriage proposals, perilous potholes and good old Africa Roadside Assistance.Her fascinating journal also highlights the varied landscapes and cultural history of Africa that she discovered along the way, the strange, funny and sometimes terrifying situations that she encountered, and the numerous challenges that she and BlueBelle endured - all the while navigating her own personal internal journey.At the time of writing Dot still lives in and travels with BlueBelle whenever possible and can be seen out and about meeting people and making things happen in her beloved Zimbabwe. Since her return to Bulawayo, Dot has been tirelessly seeking ways to improve the future for rural communities in Zimbabwe. Her twenty years of business coaching experience is helping to enhance their traditional lifestyle with 21st Century technology in order to actively encourage sustainable development. Another of her passions is giving vulnerable and disadvantaged girls access to education, to which end she created the non-profit organisation, Kusasa. She very much believes that making progress in the gender equality/equity agenda through education is vital for her country.She is also already working on the sequel to Going Home in Africa, which will detail the experience of returning to her homeland and the many joys and challenges she has faced since her return, it will be titled Being Home in Africa.Alongside all this, she has also decided to encourage more women to visit Africa and will be running small women-only group tours from 2022 in Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa. Watch her Facebook page for details of Going Home to Africa Tours.To find out about Dot's journey as it continues, look at @goinghometoafrica on Facebook and Instagram or on the website www.goinghometoafrica.com for blogs and updates. To find out about the girls' education fund, look at @kusasa.africa on Facebook and Instagram or on the website www.kusasa.africa.
Book Synopsis The Congo and the Cameroons by : Mary Kingsley
Download or read book The Congo and the Cameroons written by Mary Kingsley and published by ePenguin. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Kingsley's journeys through tropical west Africa are a remarkable record, both of a world that has vanished and of a writer of immense bravery, wit and humanity. Paddling through mangrove swamps, fending off crocodiles, climbing Mount Cameroon, Kingsley is both admirable and funny.
Book Synopsis Handbook of British Travel Writing by : Barbara Schaff
Download or read book Handbook of British Travel Writing written by Barbara Schaff and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers a systematic exploration of current key topics in travel writing studies. It addresses the history, impact, and unique discursive variety of British travel writing by covering some of the most celebrated and canonical authors of the genre as well as lesser known ones in more than thirty close-reading chapters. Combining theoretically informed, astute literary criticism of single texts with the analysis of the circumstances of their production and reception, these chapters offer excellent possibilities for understanding the complexity and cultural relevance of British travel writing.
Book Synopsis The Oregon Trail by : Francis Parkman
Download or read book The Oregon Trail written by Francis Parkman and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Djoliba Crossing by : Dave Kobrenski
Download or read book Djoliba Crossing written by Dave Kobrenski and published by Artemisia Books. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a journey into the heart of West Africa... Artist, musician, and author Dave Kobrenski takes the reader on a musical and visual journey up the Djoliba river in Guinea to explore ancient music traditions, as well as to understand the challenges that face a country "balancing between the world of its ancient traditions and the frontier of modern ideals and influences." Dozens of original paintings and drawings accompany vivid first-hand accounts of the music, culture, and people of Guinea, while scores of rhythm notations make this a unique and valuable resource for musicians, educators, and travel enthusiasts alike. From the author's preface: "Part travelogue, part sketchbook, this is a book about glimpsing in the everyday dust of existence the potential for rich and meaningful expressions of being in the world; of seeing that beyond the tattered common cloth of life hangs a veil of mystery infused with magic and wonder."
Download or read book Harmattan written by Marcello Di Cintio and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a travelogue of a different order: the searing beauty and somber reality of West Africa are distilled into poetic moments of refreshingly honest insight, a world transformed through the wide eyes of a new traveler.
