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Travels in West Africa. By Mary Henrietta Kingsley, William Forsell Kirby. Published 1897, Macmillan. 743 pages West African Studies. By Mary Henrietta Kingsley. Published 1900, Macmillan. 507 pages
Mission Work in Sierra Leone, West Africa. By Job Smith Mills. Published 1898, United Brethren Pub. House. 253 pages Letters from the Sudan. By Edward Frederick Knight. Published 1897, The Macmillan company. 325 pages Notes of Travel in South-western Africa. By Karl Johan Andersson, Charles John Andersson. Pub. 1875. 318 pages A Brief History of the Wesleyan Missions on the West Coast of Africa: including biographical... By William Fox. Published 1851, Aylott and Jones. 1248 pages
Life and Letters of Samuel Norvell Lapsley: Missionary to the Congo Valley, West Africa, 1866-1892. By Samuel Norvell Lapsley. Published 1893 Whittet & Shepperson 242 pages Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia: being a narrative of events in Matabeleland both before and... By Frederick Courteney Selous. Published 1896, R. Ward & co., limited. 290 pages Physical and Medical Climate and Meteorology of the West Coast of Africa: With Valuable Hints to... By James Africanus Beale Horton. Published 1867, Churchill. 321 pages The story of my mission in south-eastern Africa: comprising some account of the European... By William Shaw. Published 1860, Hamilton. 576 pages [South Africa, Botswana]
Travels in the Interior of Africa By Mungo Park. Published 1860, A. and C. Black. 380 pages Narrative of the shipwreck of the Sophia, on the 30th of May, 1819, on the western coast of Africa, and of the captivity of a part of the crew in the desert of Sahara. By Charles Cochelet. Published 1822. Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co. ... The African Repository, and Colonial Journal. Vol. 9. By American Colonization Society. Published 1834, American Colonization Society [Washington] Travels in South Africa, Undertaken at the Request of the London Missionary Society ... a... By Rev John Campbell. Published 1822, London Missionary Society.
Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a Journal of an Expedition Undertaken... By Heinrich Barth. Published 1896, Harper & Brothers. Report of the Wellcome tropical research laboratories at the Gordon memorial college, Khartoum.... By Sir Andrew Balfour, Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories. Published 1908. Published for Dept. of education, Sudan government, by Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, London. With the West African Frontier Force, in Southern Nigeria. By Esmé Gordon Lennox. Published 1905. 74 pages
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Some Account of the Trade in Slaves From Africa As Connected with Europe and America by James Bandinel · 1842 · 356 pages. Notes of Travel in South-western Africa by Charles John Andersson · 1875 · 342 pages Memoirs of Mrs. Rebecca Wakefield by Robert Brewin · 1888 · 258 pages [East Africa]
Facts Opinions Touching the Real Origin, Character Influence of the American Colonization Society by Giles Badger Stebbins · 1853 · 242 pages Garenganze, West and East by Frederick Stanley Arnot · 1902 · 152 pages The Story of Uganda and the Victoria Nyanza Mission by Sarah Geraldina Stock · 1892 · 252 pages The Wonderful Story of Uganda by John Davies Mullins · 1908 · 272 pages
Metallurgist for Newmont Mining Corporation and U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1934-1982 by Frank Woods McQuiston · 1989 · 276 pages A Master Builder On the Congo by Andrew Fitch Hensey · 1916 · 212 pages
Mohammed or Christ by Samuel Marinus Zwemer · 1916 · 328 pages The Autobiography of Theophilus Waldmeier, Missionary by Theophilus Waldmeier · 1886 · 366 pages [Ethiopia] A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome by Richard Francis Burton · 1893 · 294 pages
Paris: Institut d'ethnologie, 1935. From the University of Michigan Library, Digital General Collection.
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Edited by Rebecca J. Scott, Thomas C. Holt, Frederick Cooper, and Aims McGuinness. Originally published as a print book - Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2002. Full text. Covers British Colonial Africa and South Africa. Each section has an essay and annotated entries. Compilers include Fred Cooper, Pamela Scully, etc. "the definitive resource for scholars and students engaged in research on postemancipation societies in the Americas and Africa." Part of the Univ. of Pittsburg Digital Library. http://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=35413
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Alvares, Manuel. Ethiopia Minor and a Geographical Account of the Province
of Sierra Leone (c. 1615)
Authors: Alvares, Manuel, 1526-1583. ; Mota, A. Teixeira da ;
(Avelino Teixeira); Matos, Luís de. ; Hair, P. E. H. ; (Paul
Edward Hedley). [Liverpool, England] : Dept. of History, University
of Liverpool, 1990. 1 vol. (Privately produced and circulated by
the late Paul Hair). http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Africana.Alvares01
Barbot's
West African Vocabularies of c. 1680
Author: Jean Barbot. Editor: P. E. H. Hair (Paul Edward
Hedley). [Liverpool] : Centre of African Studies,
University of Liverpool, 1992. 43 p. (Parallel text in
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produced and circulated by the late Paul Hair). http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Africana.Hair01
On the web site of the
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Includes -
excerpts from
Alone in West Africa. By Mary Gaunt (1912)
The Development of Dodos. By Mary Kingsley (originally
from
The National Review, 27, March 1896)
Some African Highways; a journey of two American women to Uganda and
the Transvaal. By
Caroline Kirkland. (1908)
excerpts from Recollections of a Happy Life . By Marianne
North (1893) - travels in South Africa
Tent and Harem: Notes of an Oriental Trip. By Caroline Paine (1859)
- to Egypt
Memoirs of an Arabian princess. By Emilie Ruete (1907) - "a daughter
of Seyyid Saïd, Sultan of Muscat and Zanzibar" who married a German trader
Customs among the Natives of East Africa, fromTeita to Kilimegalia,
with Special Reference to their Women and Children . By Mary French-Sheldon
.
From the Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland,
Volume 21, 1892.
Cairo in 1890. By Constance Woolson.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, v.83 (1891)
Algerian Memories. By
Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman. (1895)
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