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Broader term:Narrower terms:Used for:- Africa -- Description and travel -- To 1900
- Africa -- Description and travel -- 1901-1950
- Africa -- Description and travel -- 1951-1976
- Africa -- Description and travel -- 1977-
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Filed under: Africa -- Description and travel![[Info]](http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif) The Blind African Slave, Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace, by Boyrereau Brinch and Benjamin F. Prentiss- The Congo and Coasts of Africa (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907), by Richard Harding Davis
- Great African Travellers, from Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- My Journey From Rhodesia to Egypt, Including an Ascent of Ruwenzori and a Short Account of the Route From Cape Town to Broken Hill and Lado to Alexandria (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1911), by Theo Kassner (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Round the Black Man's Garden (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1903), by Zélie Colvile (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Woman's Winter in Africa: A 26,000 Mile Journey (London: S. Paul and Co., c1913), by Charlotte Cameron
Filed under: Africa -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (London: The author, 1789), by Olaudah Equiano
Filed under: Africa -- Description and travel -- Juvenile fiction
Filed under: Africa -- Description and travel -- Juvenile literature- Far Off: or, Africa and America Described, With Anecdotes and Numerous Illustrations (part II of the "Far Off" series, 1856), by Favell Lee Mortimer (page images at Google)
- The Traveller in Africa: Containing Some Account of the Antiquities, Natural Curiousities, and Inhabitants, of Such Parts of That Continent and its Islands, as Have Been Most Explored by Europeans (London: Darton, Harvey and Darton, 1814), by Priscilla Wakefield (page images at Google)
Filed under: Africa, Central -- Description and travel- Adventures Beyond the Zambesi, of the O'Flaherty, the Insular Miss, the Soldier Man, and the Rebel-Woman (London: Eveleigh Nash, 1913), by Edith Cecil Maturin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Adventures Beyond the Zambesi, of the O'Flaherty, the Insular Miss, the Soldier Man, and the Rebel-Woman (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1913), by Edith Cecil Maturin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- After Big Game in Central Africa: Records of a Sportsman From August 1894 to November 1897, When Crossing the Dark Continent From the Mouth of the Zambesi to the French Congo (London: A. and C. Black, 1899), by Edouard Foà, trans. by Frederic Lees (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Boy Travellers on the Congo: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey with Henry M. Stanley "Through the Dark Continent" (New York: Harper and Bros., 1888), by Thomas Wallace Knox, contrib. by Henry M. Stanley
- Explorations in Africa, by Dr. David Livingstone, and Others, Giving a Full Account of the Stanley-Livingstone Expedition of Search, Under the Patronage of the New York "Herald", As Furnished by Dr. Livingstone and Mr. Stanley (1872), ed. by Lurton Dunham Ingersoll, contrib. by David Livingstone and Henry M. Stanley (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
- Five Years With the Congo Cannibals (London: Chatto and Windus, 1891), by Herbert Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)
- From Hausaland to Egypt, Through the Sudan (London: Constable and Co., 1910), by Hermann Karl Wilhelm Kumm
- From Ruwenzori to the Congo: A Naturalist's Journey Across Africa (London: J. Murray, 1908), by A. F. R. Wollaston (multiple formats at archive.org)
- From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile: An Account of the German Central African Expedition of 1910-1911 (2 volumes; London: Duckworth and Co., 1913), by Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Adolf Friedrich
- Geographical Notes of Expeditions in Central Africa by Three Dutch Ladies (Liverpool: T. Brakell, 1864), by John A. Tinne (page images at Google)
- Great Explorations in the Wilds of Africa (Toronto: A. H. Hovey and Co., 1886), ed. by Joel Tyler Headley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Heart of Africa: Three Years' Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored Regions of Central Africa from 1868 to 1871 (two volumes), by Georg August Schweinfurth, trans. by Ellen Elizabeth Frewer, contrib. by Winwood Reade (PDF files at cimmay.com)
- In Darkest Africa: or The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913), by Henry M. Stanley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, Organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt, by Samuel White Baker (Gutenberg text)
- The Lake Regions of Central Equatorial Africa (originally published 1859), by Richard Francis Burton (PDF at burtoniana.org)
- My Second Journey Through Equatorial Africa From the Congo to the Zambesi in the Years 1886 and 1887 (London: Chatto and Windus, 1891), by Hermann von Wissmann, trans. by Minna J. A. Bergmann (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries, and of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864, by David Livingstone (Gutenberg text)
- Tramps Round the Mountains of the Moon and Through the Back Gate of the Congo State (London et al.: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908), by T. Broadwood Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Visit to Stanley's Rear-Guard at Major Barttelot's Camp on the Aruhwimi, With an Account of the River-Life on the Congo (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1889), by John Reinhardt Werner (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Voice From the Congo: Comprising Stories, Anecdotes, and Descriptive Notes (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910), by Herbert Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)
Filed under: Africa, East -- Description and travel- By the Equator's Snowy Peak: A Record of Medical Missionary Work and Travel in British East Africa (London: Church Missionary Society, 1913), by Emily May Crawford (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Descripción de los Reinos, Costas, Puertos e Islas que hay Desde el Cabo de Buena Esperanza Hasta los Leyquios; Libro que Trata del Descubrimiento y Principio del Estrecho que se Llama de Magallanes; y Descrición de Parte del Japón (in Spanish; first part variously attributed to Barbosa or Magalhaes (Magellan); Madrid: Estab. Tip. de Torrent y Compañía, 1920), ed. by Antonio Blázquez y Delgado Aguilera, contrib. by Duarte Barbosa, Fernão de Magalhães, and Ginés de Mafra (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Flying and Sport in East Africa (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1920), by Leo Walmsley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, by John Hanning Speke
- The Land of Footprints, by Stewart Edward White (Gutenberg text)
- The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures, by J. H. Patterson (Gutenberg text)
- My African Journey (New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1908), by Winston Churchill (multiple formats at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery to Africa and Arabia, Performed in His Majesty's Ships, Leven and Barracouta, from 1821 to 1826, Under the Command of Capt. F.W. Owen, R.N. (2 volumes; London; R. Bentley, 1835), by Thomas Boteler
- On the Gorilla Trail (New York and London: Appleton, 1923), by Mary Hastings Bradley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Sultan to Sultan: Adventures Among the Masai and Other Tribes of East Africa (Boston: Arena Pub. Co.; London: Saxon and co., 1892), by Mary French Sheldon (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Through Unknown African Countries: The First Expedition from Somaliland to Lake Rudolf (London and New York: E. Arnold, 1897), by Arthur Donaldson Smith, contrib. by Albert C. L. G. Günther, Eugène Simon, R. I. Pocock, W. J. Holland, J. W. Gregory, G. C. Crick, Stewart Culin, and Karl Jordan (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
- Twelve Hundred Miles in a Waggon (London and New York: E. Arnold, 1895), by Alice Blanche Balfour (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Voyage à la Côte Orientale d'Afrique Pendant l'Année 1866 (in French; Paris: Gaume Freres and J. Duprey, 1872), by R. P. Horner, ed. by J. Gaume
- With Stanley on the Congo (London: Nelson, n.d.), by M. Douglas (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Zanzibar: City, Island and Coast (2 volumes; London: Tinsley, 1872), by Richard Francis Burton (PDF page image files at burtoniana.org)
Filed under: Africa, Eastern -- Description and travel- A Journey in East Africa: Towards the Mountains of the Moon (new edition; Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1886), by M. A. Pringle
- A White Woman in Central Africa (London: T. F. Unwin; New York: Cassell Co., 1900), by Helen Caddick
Filed under: Africa, French-speaking Equatorial -- Description and travel
Filed under: Africa, North -- Description and travel- An Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce, Wrecked on the Western Coast of Africa, in the Month of August, 1815 (New York: T. and W. Mercein, 1817), by James Riley, ed. by Anthony Bleecker (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Journal of a Three Months' Tour in Portugal, Spain, Africa, &c. (1843), by Frances Anne Vane Londonderry (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Pocket Guide to North Africa (1943), by United States Army Service Forces Special Service Division (PDF at archive.org)
- Travels into the Inland Parts of Africa: Containing a Description of the Several Nations for the Space of Six Hundred Miles up the River Gambia (London: Printed by E. Cave for the author, 1738), by Francis Moore, contrib. by Bartholomew Stibbs and Africanus Leo (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
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