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pro vyhledávání: '"TRAVEL / Africa / West"'
Autor:
Peter Chilson, James Galvin
In Niger, where access to rail and air travel requires overcoming many obstacles, roads are the nation's lifeline. For a year in the early 1990s, Peter Chilson traveled this desert country by automobile to experience West African road culture. He cri
Autor:
Deirdre Coleman
In 1771 Joseph Banks and other wealthy collectors sent a talented, self-taught naturalist to Sierra Leone to collect all things rare and curious, from moths to monkeys. Henry Smeathman's expedition to the West African coast, which coincided with a st
Autor:
Bovill, E. W., Hakluyt Society
This is the last of three volumes on the Bornu Mission (1822-25) which form part of a series of volumes on the exploration of the Niger. They consist of the edited text of the'Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa in the
Autor:
Kingsley, Mary
Supported by a family inheritance that gave her £500 a year, Mary Henrietta Kingsley traveled to Africa to complete the book her father had started. The subject was the culture of Africa and Kingsley stayed with local people while she learned to sur
Autor:
Robert Adams, Charles Adams
First published in London in 1816, The Narrative of Robert Adams is an account of the adventures of Robert Adams, an African American seaman who survives shipwreck, slavery, and brutal efforts to convert him to Islam, before being ransomed to the Bri
Autor:
Christopher Fyfe
Anna Maria Falconbridge's Narrative of Two Voyages, consisting of fourteen letters to a friend about her experiences, is the first published Englishwoman's narrative of a visit to West Africa. Alexander Falconbridge's Account of the Slave Trade descr
Autor:
Delphine Bousquet Hazoumè
Il fut un temps lointain où aucun pays de l'Afrique moderne ne pouvait être dessiné sur une carte. C'est de ce brouillard ancien qu'est né le jeune et dynamique Bénin, l'ex-Dahomey de la colonisation française. Un pays qui, s'il fait peu parler
Autor:
Olwen Campbell
The name of Mary Kingsley deserves to be more widely known than it is today. A woman of rare abilities and boundless courage, living in an age when the narrowest Victorian conventions about the duties of daughters in the home still prevailed, she nev
Autor:
Carol Bolton, Christopher Brown
In 1805, naval officer Captain Philip Beaver (1766–1813) published his African Memoranda: Relative to an Attempt to Establish a British Settlement on the Island of Bulama, on the Western Coast of Africa, in the Year 1792. Beaver's text in this mode