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.
Author: Christopher Hibbert
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Published: 01/14/2002
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.95h x 6.04w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780815411932
ISBN10: 0815411936
BISAC Categories:
- History | Africa | General
- History | Expeditions & Discoveries
- History | Europe | General
Author: Christopher Hibbert
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Published: 01/14/2002
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 8.95h x 6.04w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780815411932
ISBN10: 0815411936
BISAC Categories:
- History | Africa | General
- History | Expeditions & Discoveries
- History | Europe | General
About the Author
Christopher Hibbert is the author of Wolfe at Quebec and Agincourt, among many other books on history. He lives in England.