Fascinating book for all ages telling of travels through Africa over 100 years ago. Covering the continent by steamer and train and other more primitive means of transport, the reader will enjoy learning of African life long before knowledge of this continent was available to most people throughout the world. Summary by BettyB.
Note: This text was published more than 100 years ago in 1905.The listener should be aware that the descriptions of the native peoples, their dress and home life reflected the perceptions and thinking of the early 20th century which some listeners may find offensive.
Note: This text was published more than 100 years ago in 1905.The listener should be aware that the descriptions of the native peoples, their dress and home life reflected the perceptions and thinking of the early 20th century which some listeners may find offensive.
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Preface
03:27 - Chapter 2
From New York to Gibraltar
08:26 - Chapter 3
Morocco
09:01 - Chapter 4
Through Interior Morocco
09:01 - Chapter 5
In Fez, the Capital of Morocco
08:58 - Chapter 6
Algeria, General View
10:24 - Chapter 7
In Algiers
10:09 - Chapter 8
The City of Tunis
10:55 - Chapter 9
The Desert of Sahara
06:27 - Chapter 10
In the Oasis off Biskra
08:33 - Chapter 11
A Caravan Ride
12:56 - Chapter 12
Tripoli and its Oases
10:02 - Chapter 13
The Land of the Nile
06:07 - Chapter 14
Egypt- A Trip through the Country
07:46 - Chapter 15
Alexandria and Cairo
14:28 - Chapter 16
Ancient Egypt - The Pyramids and the Sphinx
08:08 - Chapter 17
A Trip through the Suez Canal
06:16 - Chapter 18
Nubia
10:28 - Chapter 19
The Roof of Africa - Abyssinia
12:40 - Chapter 20
Across East Africa by Rail
08:06 - Chapter 21
About Lake Victoria
09:04 - Chapter 22
In Uganda
07:12 - Chapter 23
Elephants and Ivory
09:30 - Chapter 24
The Strange Animals of Africa
07:53 - Chapter 25
In the Sudan
05:33 - Chapter 26
About Kuka and Lake Tchad
10:40 - Chapter 27
In the Land of the Hausas
10:23 - Chapter 28
The Upper Niger - Timbuktu and Jenne
13:04 - Chapter 29
The Spanish Possessions
02:09 - Chapter 30
The Home of the Negro
10:34 - Chapter 31
Senegambia, Sierra Leone aand Liberia - The Kroos
10:53 - Chapter 32
Lagos - A Visit to a West African Factory
06:19 - Chapter 33
The Yorubans - Southern Nigeria
08:37 - Chapter 34
The Home of the Gorilla - Kamerun and French Kongo
05:54 - Chapter 35
The Kongo and Its Basin
09:54 - Chapter 36
Life upon the Kongo
14:30 - Chapter 37
Trade and Commerce of the Kongo
08:18 - Chapter 38
In the Great African Forest - Pygmies
08:41 - Chapter 39
Through German East Africa to the Indian Ocean
10:48 - Chapter 40
Zanzibar
05:35 - Chapter 41
With the Portugese in Africa
12:44 - Chapter 42
British South Africa
08:00 - Chapter 43
Rhodesia - the Zambesi - The Niagara of Africa
05:22 - Chapter 44
Farming in South Africa
08:22 - Chapter 45
A Visit to an Ostrich Farm
11:32 - Chapter 46
Kimberley and the Diamond Mines
11:28 - Chapter 47
The Gold Mines of South Africa - Johannesburg
09:39 - Chapter 48
Natal, the Garden of South Africa
08:51 - Chapter 49
Cape Colony
08:44 - Chapter 50
German Southwest Africa
05:44 - Chapter 51
Angola or Portugese West Africa
11:08