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• Dark and Stormy Days at Kumassi, 1900: or, Missionary Experience in Ashanti, According to the Diary of Rev. Frits Ramseyer (London: S. W. Partridge and Co., ca. 1901), by Friedrich August Ramseyer, ed. by P. Steiner, trans. by Miss Meyer, contrib. by Thomas Nichol
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Hebrewisms of West Africa: From Nile to Niger With the Jews (c1930), by Joseph J. Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Downfall of Prempeh: A Diary of Life with the Native Levy in Ashanti, 1895-96 (London: Methuen and Co., 1900), by Robert Baden-Powell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Psychic Phenomena of Jamaica (New York: Dial Press, 1934), by Joseph J. Williams
  • HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Ashanti proverbs, the primitive ethics of a savage people (The Clarendon Press, 1916), by R. S. Rattray and J. G. Christaller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ashanti. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by R. S. Rattray (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Four years in Ashantee (Robert Carter & Bros., 1875), by Friedrich August Ramseyer, Theodor Christlieb, Hermann Gundert, Mary Weitbrecht, Johannes Kühne, and John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fanti and Ashanti, three papers read on board the S. S. Ambriz on the voyage to the Gold coast (W. Blackwood and Sons, 1873), by Henry Brackenbury and George Lightfoot Huyshe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vier jahre in Asante, oder: Missionare als kriegsgefangene unter den heidnischen Assanteern. (Brobst, Diehl u. Co., 1886), by August Emil Frey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages, aventures et captivité de J. Bonnat chez les Achantis (Librairie Plon, 1884), by Jules Gros (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee : with a descriptive account of that kingdom (Griffith & Farran, 1873), by T. Edward Bowdich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conquest of Coomassie : an epic of the Mashanti nation (Long Beach, California : Worth While Publishing Company, [1923], 1923), by active 1923 Aldebaran and Henry M. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chez les Achanti. ([Neuchâtel, 1906), by Edmond Perregaux (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• In Ashanti & beyond; the record of a resident magistrate's many years in tropical Africa, his arduous & dangerous treks both in the course of his duty & in pursuit of big game (Seeley, Service & co. limited, 1927), by Allan Wolsey Cardinall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A voyage to Africa: including a narrative of an embassy to one of the interior kingdoms, in the year 1820; with remarks on the course and termination of the Niger, and other principal rivers in that country. (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821), by William Hutton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Curiosities and remarkable customs (C. Wright, 1849), by Caleb Wright (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the Gold Coast and Asante: Based on Traditions and Historical Facts, Comprising a Period of More Than Three Centuries From About 1500 to 1860 (Basel: The author, 1895), by Carl Christian Reindorf, ed. by J. G. Christaller
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Journal of a residence in Ashantee. (H. Colburn, 1824), by Joseph Dupuis, Henry Colburn, and Shackell and Arrowsmith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The downfall of Prempeh; a diary of life with the native levy in Ashanti, 1895-96 (Methuen, 1898), by Robert Baden-Powell and George Baden-Powell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Four years in Ashantee (J. Nisbet & co., 1875), by Friedrich August Ramseyer, Hermann Gundert, Mary Weitbrecht, Johannes Kühne, Theodor Christlieb, Mary Weitbrecht, and Johannes Kühne (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Funny Book About the Ashantees (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1880), by Ernest Henry Griset (page images at Florida)

• Die Goldgewichte von Asante (Westafrika) : Eine ethnologische Studie (Johnson Reprint, 1968), by Rudolf Zeller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Vier jahre in Asante, oder: Missionare als kriegsgefangene unter den heidnischen Assanteern. (Brobst, Diehl u. Co., 1886), by August Emil Frey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Four years in Ashantee (J. Nisbet & co., 1875), by Friedrich August Ramseyer, Hermann Gundert, Mary Weitbrecht, Johannes Kühne, Theodor Christlieb, Mary Weitbrecht, and Johannes Kühne (page images at HathiTrust)

• Conquest of Coomassie : an epic of the Mashanti nation (Long Beach, California : Worth While Publishing Company, [1923], 1923), by active 1923 Aldebaran and Henry M. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ashanti law and constitution (The Clarendon press, 1929), by R. S. Rattray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels and life in Ashanti and Jaman (Archibald Constable & Co., 1898), by R. Austin Freeman and Archibald Constable & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twi mmebuse̲m, mpensã-ahansĩa mmoaano. A collection of three thousand and six hundred Tshi proverbs, in use among the Negroes of the Gold coast speaking the Asante and Fante language, collected, together with their variations, and alphabetically arranged (The Basel German Evangelical Missionary Society, 1879), by J. G. Christaller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of a residence in Ashantee. (H. Colburn, 1824), by Joseph Dupuis, Henry Colburn, and Shackell and Arrowsmith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Curiosities and remarkable customs (C. Wright, 1849), by Caleb Wright (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gold Coast and South Africa. (Printed for HMSO by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1901), by Godfrey Yeatman Lagden, Great Britain Foreign Office, Great Britain Colonial Office, South Africa, and Gold Coast (page images at HathiTrust)

• Journal of a residence in Ashantee. (H. Colburn, 1824), by Joseph Dupuis, Henry Colburn, and Shackell and Arrowsmith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of the Ashantee War : with a view of the present state of the colony of Sierra Leone (Simpkin and Marshall, 1831), by H. I. Ricketts (page images at HathiTrust)

• The March to Coomassie (second edition; London: Tinsley Bros., 1874), by G. A. Henty (multiple formats at Google)
• Akim-foo: the history of a failure. (S. Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1875), by William Francis Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the Ashantee campaign (Smith, Elder & co., 1874), by Winwood i. e. William Winwood Reade (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the Ashantee Campaign (Smith, Elder & Co., 1874), by William Winwood Reade (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Coomassie and Magdala] (Sampson, Low, 1874), by Henry M. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ashantee war : a popular narrative. (H. S. King & co., 1874), by John Frederick Maurice (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ashanti war; a narrative prepared from the official documents by permission of Major-General Sir Garnet Wolseley by Henry Brackenbury. (W. Blackwood and Sons, 1874), by Henry Brackenbury and William Blackwood and Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The march to Coomassie (Tinsley Brothers, 1874), by G. A. Henty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Campaigning in Western Africa and the Ashantee invasion of 1874 ([London, 1874), by E. Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Campaigning in Western Africa and the Ashantee invasion (W. Mitchell, 1874), by E. Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Akim-foo: the history of a failure. (S. Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1876), by William Francis Butler (page images at HathiTrust)

• By sheer pluck : a tale of the Ashanti war (Hurst & Co., 1894), by G. A. Henty and Gordon Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• By sheer pluck, a tale of the Ashanti war. (Burt, 1896), by G. A. Henty (page images at HathiTrust)
• With Wolseley to Kumasi : a tale of the first Ashanti war (Blackie and son, limited, 1908), by Frederick Sadleir Brerton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Downfall of Prempeh: A Diary of Life with the Native Levy in Ashanti, 1895-96 (London: Methuen and Co., 1900), by Robert Baden-Powell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Siege of Kumassi (London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1901), by Lady Hodgson (page images at Google; US access only)
• The relief of Kumasi. (Methuen, 1901), by Harold C J. Biss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gold Coast and South Africa. (Printed for HMSO by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1901), by Godfrey Yeatman Lagden, Great Britain Foreign Office, Great Britain Colonial Office, South Africa, and Gold Coast (page images at HathiTrust)

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