{"title":"History - Africa - West","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"two-trips-to-gorilla-land-and-the-cataracts-of-the-congo-volume-1-gb-5760","title":"Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n      The notes which form the ground-work of these volumes have long been kept\n      in the obscurity of manuscript: my studies of South America, of Syria and\n      Palestine, of Iceland, and of Istria, left me scant time for the labour of\n      preparation. Leisure and opportunity have now offered themselves, and I\n      avail myself of them in the hope that the publication will be found useful\n      to more than one class of readers. The many who take an interest in the\n      life of barbarous peoples may not be displeased to hear more about the\n      Fn; and the few who would try a fall with Mister Gorilla can learn from\n      me how to equip themselves, whence to set out and whither to go for the\n      best chance. Travelling with M. Paul B. du Chaillu's \"First Expedition\" in\n      my hand, I jealously looked into every statement, and his numerous friends\n      will be pleased to see how many of his assertions are confirmed by my\n      experience.\n    \n\n      The second part is devoted to the Nzadi or lower Congo River, from the\n      mouth to the Yellala or main rapids, the gate by which the mighty stream,\n      emerging from the plateau of Inner Africa, goes to its long home, the\n      Atlantic. Some time must elapse before the second expedition, which left\n      Ambriz early in 1873, under Lieutenant Grandy, R. N., can submit its\n      labours to the public: meanwhile these pages will, I trust, form a\n      suitable introduction to the gallant explorer's travel in the interior. It\n      would be preposterous to publish descriptions of any European country from\n      information gathered ten years ago. But Africa moves slowly, and thus we\n      see that the results of an Abyssinian journey (M. Antoine d'Abbadie's\n      \"Godsic d'Ethiopie,\" which took place about 1845, are not considered\n      obsolete in 1873.\n    \n\n      After a languid conviction during the last half century of owning some\n      ground upon the West Coast of Africa, England has been rudely aroused by a\n      little war which will have large consequences. The causes that led to the\n      \"Ashantee Campaign,\" a negro copy of the negroid Abyssinian, may be\n      broadly laid down as general incuriousness, local mismanagement, and the\n      operation of unprincipled journalism.\n    \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 5760 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Burton, Richard Francis \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: May 1, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Burton, Richard Francis \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43213343817885,"sku":"gb-5760-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/5760_3bc5e134-34af-4cb7-8e09-9510e43c4933.jpg?v=1671281332"},{"product_id":"two-trips-to-gorilla-land-and-the-cataracts-of-the-congo-volume-2-gb-5761","title":"Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 2\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n      During the hot season of 1863, \"Nanny Po,\" as the civilized African calls\n      this \"lofty and beautiful island,\" had become a charnel-house, a \"dark and\n      dismal tomb of Europeans.\" The yellow fever of the last year, which wiped\n      out in two months one-third of the white colonymore exactly, 78 out\n      of 250had not reappeared, but the conditions for its re-appearance\n      were highly favourable. The earth was all water, the vegetation all slime,\n      the air half steam, and the difference between wet and dry bulbs almost\n      nil. Thoroughly dispirited for the first time, I was meditating how to\n      escape, when H. M. Steamship \"Torch\" steamed into Clarence Cove, and\n      Commander Smith hospitably offered me a passage down south. To hear was to\n      accept. Two days afterwards (July 29, 1863) I bade a temporary \"adios\" to\n      the enemy.\n    \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 5761 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Burton, Richard Francis \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: May 1, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Burton, Richard Francis \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43213343850653,"sku":"gb-5761-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/5761_f809776f-2bff-4ee8-a612-747d0590741a.jpg?v=1671281335"},{"product_id":"travels-in-west-africa-congo-francais-corisco-and-cameroons-gb-5891","title":"Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTravels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRelateth the various causes which impelled the author to embark\nupon the voyage.\nIt was in 1893 that, for the first time in my life, I found myself\nin possession of five or six months which were not heavily forestalled,\nand feeling like a boy with a new half-crown, I lay about in my mind,\nas Mr. Bunyan would say, as to what to do with them. Go\nand learn your tropics, said Science. Where on earth am\nI to go? I wondered, for tropics are tropics wherever found, so I got\ndown an atlas and saw that either South America or West Africa must\nbe my destination, for the Malayan region was too far off and too expensive.\nThen I got Wallaces Geographical Distribution and after\nreading that masters article on the Ethiopian region I hardened\nmy heart and closed with West Africa. I did this the more readily\nbecause while I knew nothing of the practical condition of it, I knew\na good deal both by tradition and report of South East America, and\nremembered that Yellow Jack was endemic, and that a certain naturalist,\nmy superior physically and mentally, had come very near getting starved\nto death in the depressing society of an expedition slowly perishing\nof want and miscellaneous fevers up the Parana.\nMy ignorance regarding West Africa was soon removed. And although\nthe vast cavity in my mind that it occupied is not even yet half filled\nup, there is a great deal of very curious information in its place.\nI use the word curious advisedly, for I think many seemed to translate\nmy request for practical hints and advice into an advertisement that\nRubbish may be shot here. This same information\nis in a state of great confusion still, although I have made heroic\nefforts to codify it. I find, however, that it can almost all\nbe got in under the following different headings, namely and to wit:\n-\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 5891 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Kingsley, Mary Henrietta \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jun 1, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Kingsley, Mary Henrietta,1862-1900 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43213350895773,"sku":"gb-5891-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/5891_a11e3ef9-0792-4e1f-8ffc-5f1ae92a7590.jpg?v=1671281695"},{"product_id":"journal-of-an-african-cruiser-gb-7937","title":"Journal of an African Cruiser","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJournal of an African Cruiser\r - Comprising Sketches of the Canaries, the Cape De Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, and Other Places of Interest on the West Coast of Africa\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n      The following pages have afforded occupation for many hours, which might\r\n      else have been wasted in idle amusements, or embittered by still idler\r\n      regrets at the destiny which carried the writer to a region so little\r\n      seductive as Africa, and kept him there so long. He now offers them to the\r\n      public, after some labor bestowed in correction and amendment, but\r\n      retaining their original form, that of a daily Journal, which better\r\n      suited his lack of literary practice and constructive skill, and was in\r\n      fitter keeping with the humble pretensions of the work, than a\r\n      re-arrangement on artistic principles. At various points of the narrative,\r\n      however, he has introduced observations or disquisitions from two or three\r\n      common-place books, which he kept simultaneously with the Journal; and\r\n      thus, in a few instances, remarks are inserted as having been made early\r\n      in the cruise, while, in reality, they were perhaps the ultimate result of\r\n      his reflection and judgment upon the topics discussed.\r\n    \n\r\n      If, in any portion of the book, the author may hope to engage the\r\n      attention of the public, it will probably be in those pages which treat of\r\n      Liberia. The value of his evidence, as to the condition and prospects of\r\n      that colony, must depend, not upon any singular acuteness of observation\r\n      or depth of reflection, but upon his freedom from partizan bias, and his\r\n      consequent ability to perceive a certain degree of truth, and inclination\r\n      to express it frankly. A northern man, but not unacquainted with the slave\r\n      institutions of our own and other countriesneither an Abolitionist\r\n      nor a Colonizationistwithout prejudice, as without prepossessionhe\r\n      felt himself thus far qualified to examine the great enterprise which he\r\n      beheld in progress. He enjoyed, moreover, the advantage of comparing\r\n      Liberia, as he now saw it, with a personal observation of its condition\r\n      three years before, and could therefore mark its onward or retreating\r\n      footsteps, and the better judge what was permanent, and what merely\r\n      temporary or accidental. With these qualifications, he may at least hope\r\n      to have spoken so much of truth as entirely to gratify neither the friends\r\n      nor enemies of this interesting colony.\r\n    \n\r\n      The West Coast of Africa is a fresher field for the scribbling tourist,\r\n      than most other parts of the world. Few visit it, unless driven by stern\r\n      necessity; and still fewer are disposed to struggle against the enervating\r\n      influence of the climate, and keep up even so much of intellectual\r\n      activity as may suffice to fill a diurnal page of Journal or Commonplace\r\n      Book. In his descriptions of the settlements of the various nations of\r\n      Europe, along that coast, and of the native tribes, and their trade and\r\n      intercourse with the whites, the writer indulges the idea that he may add\r\n      a trifle to the general information of the public. He puts forth his work,\r\n      however, with no higher claims than as a collection of desultory sketches,\r\n      in which he felt himself nowise bound to tell all that it might be\r\n      desirable to know, but only to be accurate in what he does tell. On such\r\n      terms, there is perhaps no very reprehensible audacity in undertaking the\r\n      history of a voyage; and he smiles to find himself, so simply and with so\r\n      little labor, acquiring a title to be enrolled among the authors of books!\r\n    \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 7937 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Bridge, Horatio \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Apr 1, 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Bridge, Horatio,1806-1893 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43215478259869,"sku":"gb-7937-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/7937.jpg?v=1671289687"},{"product_id":"observations-upon-the-windward-coast-of-africa-gb-12539","title":"Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eObservations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa\r - The religion, character, customs, \u0026amp;c. of the natives; with a system upon which they may be civilized, and a knowledge attained of the interior of this extraordinary quarter of the globe; and upon the natural and commercial resources of the country; made in the years 1805 and 1806; with an appendix, containing a letter to Lord Howick, on the most simple and effectual means of abolishing the slave trade\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith becoming deference, I shall endeavour to illustrate in the\r\nfollowing pages, the observations I have personally made upon the Coast of\r\nAfrica, and to give the information I have obtained from an extended circle\r\nof Chiefs, and native Tribes, relative to its Inhabitants, their Religion,\r\nHabits and Customs, the natural productions and commercial resources, \u0026amp;c.\r\nand attempt to delineate the most eligible grounds upon which the condition\r\nof the African may be effectually improved, and our commercial relations be\r\npreserved with that important quarter of the globe.\nThough deeply impressed with the importance of the subject, and my own\r\nincompetency, I obtrude myself upon Public notice, governed by this\r\nreflection, that I am stimulated by an ardent zeal for the prosperity of my\r\nCountry, and am animated by a philanthropic solicitude for the effectual\r\nmanumission of the African, from his enslaved customs, his superstitious\r\nidolatry, and for the enlargement of his intellectual powers.\nI shall guard against the sacrifice of truth to abstracted principles;\r\nand if in the most remote degree, I excite the interference of my\r\ncountrymen in behalf of the African, extend our commerce, and enlarge the\r\ncircle of civilized and Christian Society, I shall think that I have\r\nneither travelled, nor written in vain.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 12539 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Corry, Joseph \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jun 1, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Corry, Joseph \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43216345366685,"sku":"gb-12539-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/12539.jpg?v=1671347283"},{"product_id":"travels-of-richard-and-john-lander-into-the-interior-of-africa-for-the-discovery-of-the-course-and-termination-of-the-niger-gb-12667","title":"Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTravels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger\r - From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. 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Der Kanal von Suez.\n2. Bauten in Afrika.\n3. Lagos an der Westkste von Afrika.\n4. Das Gora-Gebirge in Central-Afrika.\n5. Hflichkeitsformen und Umgangsgebruche bei den\n6. Beitrag zur Kenntni der Sitten der Berber\n7. Ueber Reiz- und Nahrungsmittel afrikanischer Vlker.\n8. Aufbruch zur Libyschen Wste.\n9. Das jetzige Alexandrien.\n10. Kairo, Hauptstadt von Aegypten.\n11. Meine Heimkehr aus der Libyschen Wste.\n12. Bei den Zeltbewohnern in Marokko,\n\nEs hat kaum ein groartigeres Unternehmen mehr das\r\nInteresse der gebildeten Welt in Anspruch genommen, als der\r\nDurchstich des Isthmus von Suez, eine Unternehmung, wie sie\r\neben nur der vor nichts zurckschreckende Geist des 19. Jahrhunderts\r\nerdenken konnte. 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President of Cuba-Africa Friendship Association and head of Association of Combatants of Cuban Revolution in Havana Province.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Victor Dreke \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47809061027997,"sku":"9781604882162","price":28.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_986377ef-c26a-4387-a04c-6c809b99324c.jpg?v=1775555831"}],"url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/collections\/history-africa-west.oembed","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}