| Africa Explored: Europeans on the Dark Continent, 1769-1889 Contributor(s): Hibbert, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 0815411936 ISBN-13: 9780815411932 Publisher: Cooper Square Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2002 Annotation: This highly praised book uses letters, diaries, and memoirs by Mongo Park, Richard Burton, David Livingstone, Henry Morton Stanley, and others to provide a gripping account of the search for the source of the Nile and of the colonialization of Africa. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - General - History | Expeditions & Discoveries - History | Europe - General |
| Dewey: 916.042 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.04" W x 8.95" (1.03 lbs) 344 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Many outstanding men-James Bruce, Richard Francis Burton, David Livingstone, Henry Morton Stanley, and others-won lasting fame from their African journeys. Africa Explored collects their amazing tales of treks into the unknown. These tales of Europeans in Africa before the wave of colonialism mix exotic sights and startling customs with sympathetic meetings of Africa's people and scenes of sublime beauty. Africa Explored relates Mungo Park's being robbed and left for dead in the West African desert, then saved by repeated acts of kindness; Burton and Speke's search for the legendary Mountains of the Moon that fed the Nile; Alexander Laing's fatal voyage to Timbuktu; Livingston's journeys up the Zambezi River; German missionary Johannes Rebmann's astonishment at beholding the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro; and other incredible encounters with strange animals, the slave trade, crippling diseases, and desert nomads. |