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Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Africa

Public domain audiobook

Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Africa

by Frank G. Carpenter

English· 07:39:23· 51 chapters
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.

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Preface

    03:27
  2. Chapter 2

    From New York to Gibraltar

    08:26
  3. Chapter 3

    Morocco

    09:01
  4. Chapter 4

    Through Interior Morocco

    09:01
  5. Chapter 5

    In Fez, the Capital of Morocco

    08:58
  6. Chapter 6

    Algeria, General View

    10:24
  7. Chapter 7

    In Algiers

    10:09
  8. Chapter 8

    The City of Tunis

    10:55
  9. Chapter 9

    The Desert of Sahara

    06:27
  10. Chapter 10

    In the Oasis off Biskra

    08:33
  11. Chapter 11

    A Caravan Ride

    12:56
  12. Chapter 12

    Tripoli and its Oases

    10:02
  13. Chapter 13

    The Land of the Nile

    06:07
  14. Chapter 14

    Egypt- A Trip through the Country

    07:46
  15. Chapter 15

    Alexandria and Cairo

    14:28
  16. Chapter 16

    Ancient Egypt - The Pyramids and the Sphinx

    08:08
  17. Chapter 17

    A Trip through the Suez Canal

    06:16
  18. Chapter 18

    Nubia

    10:28
  19. Chapter 19

    The Roof of Africa - Abyssinia

    12:40
  20. Chapter 20

    Across East Africa by Rail

    08:06
  21. Chapter 21

    About Lake Victoria

    09:04
  22. Chapter 22

    In Uganda

    07:12
  23. Chapter 23

    Elephants and Ivory

    09:30
  24. Chapter 24

    The Strange Animals of Africa

    07:53
  25. Chapter 25

    In the Sudan

    05:33
  26. Chapter 26

    About Kuka and Lake Tchad

    10:40
  27. Chapter 27

    In the Land of the Hausas

    10:23
  28. Chapter 28

    The Upper Niger - Timbuktu and Jenne

    13:04
  29. Chapter 29

    The Spanish Possessions

    02:09
  30. Chapter 30

    The Home of the Negro

    10:34
  31. Chapter 31

    Senegambia, Sierra Leone aand Liberia - The Kroos

    10:53
  32. Chapter 32

    Lagos - A Visit to a West African Factory

    06:19
  33. Chapter 33

    The Yorubans - Southern Nigeria

    08:37
  34. Chapter 34

    The Home of the Gorilla - Kamerun and French Kongo

    05:54
  35. Chapter 35

    The Kongo and Its Basin

    09:54
  36. Chapter 36

    Life upon the Kongo

    14:30
  37. Chapter 37

    Trade and Commerce of the Kongo

    08:18
  38. Chapter 38

    In the Great African Forest - Pygmies

    08:41
  39. Chapter 39

    Through German East Africa to the Indian Ocean

    10:48
  40. Chapter 40

    Zanzibar

    05:35
  41. Chapter 41

    With the Portugese in Africa

    12:44
  42. Chapter 42

    British South Africa

    08:00
  43. Chapter 43

    Rhodesia - the Zambesi - The Niagara of Africa

    05:22
  44. Chapter 44

    Farming in South Africa

    08:22
  45. Chapter 45

    A Visit to an Ostrich Farm

    11:32
  46. Chapter 46

    Kimberley and the Diamond Mines

    11:28
  47. Chapter 47

    The Gold Mines of South Africa - Johannesburg

    09:39
  48. Chapter 48

    Natal, the Garden of South Africa

    08:51
  49. Chapter 49

    Cape Colony

    08:44
  50. Chapter 50

    German Southwest Africa

    05:44
  51. Chapter 51

    Angola or Portugese West Africa

    11:08