Africa -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
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A Geographical Historie of Africa (London: G. Bishop, 1600), by Leo Africanus, trans. by John Pory- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (London: The author, 1789), by Olaudah Equiano
- Volume I: HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume I, second edition: HTML at ECCO TCP
- volume II: HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume II: HTML at ECCO TCP
- 2 volumes in 1: page images at HathiTrust
- Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio reading
- The Travels of Ibn Batūta;: Translated from the Abridged Arabic Manuscript Copies Preserved in the Public Library of Cambridge, With Notes Illustrative of the History, Geography, Botany, Antiques, &c Occurring Throughout the Work (London: Printed for the Oriental Translation Committee, 1829), by Ibn Batuta, ed. by Samuel Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions (new edition; London: J. Phillips, 1784), by Anthony Benezet (Gutenberg text)
- A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies, in a Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions (new edition; London: J. Phillips, 1785), by Anthony Benezet
- Relations of the Most Famous Kingdomes and Common-Wealths Thorowout the World, Discoursing of Their Situations, Religions, Languages, Manners, Customes, strengths, Greatnesse, and Policies (London: Printed by I. Haviland for I. Partridge, 1630), by Giovanni Botero, ed. by Robert Johnson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- Relations of the Most Famous Kingdoms and Common-Weales Thorough the World, Discoursing of Their Scituations, Manners, Customes, Strengthes and Pollicies (London: Printed for J. Jaggard, 1611), by Giovanni Botero, ed. by Robert Johnson
- The History of the Long Captivity and Adventures of Thomas Pellow, in South-Barbary (second edition; London: Printed for R. Goadby and sold by W. Owen, ca. 1740), by Thomas Pellow (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Adventures of Thomas Pellow, of Penryn, Mariner: Three and Twenty Years in Captivity Among the Moors (London: T. F. Unwin, 1890), by Thomas Pellow, ed. by Robert Brown
- A Complete History of Algiers; To Which is Prefixed, An Epitome of the General History of Barbary, From the Earliest Times, Interspersed With Many Curious Passages and Remarks, Not Touched on by Any Writer Whatever (London: Printed by J. Bettenham for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, 1731), by J. Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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 Leo Africanus (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
- The History of the Long Captivity and Adventures of Thomas Pellow, in South-Barbary (second edition; London: Printed for R. Goadby and sold by W. Owen, ca. 1740), by Thomas Pellow (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Adventures of Thomas Pellow, of Penryn, Mariner: Three and Twenty Years in Captivity Among the Moors (London: T. F. Unwin, 1890), by Thomas Pellow, ed. by Robert Brown
- The Golden Trade: or, A Discovery of the River Gambra, and the Golden Trade of the Aethiopians, by Richard Jobson
- Memoirs Relative to Egypt: Written in That Country During the Campaigns of General Bonaparte, in the Years 1798 and 1799, by the Learned and Scientific Men Who Accompanied the French Expedition (London: Printed by T. Gillet for R. Phillips, 1800), by Institut d'Egypte (1798-1801)
- Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 (third edition, 8 volumes; London: Printed by G. Ramsay and Co., 1813), by James Bruce
- Volume I: multiple formats at Google
- Volume II: multiple formats at Google
- Volume III: multiple formats at Google
- Volume IV: multiple formats at Google
- Volume V: multiple formats at Google
- Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VII: multiple formats at Google
- Volume VIII: multiple formats at Google
- Miscellaneous Works of Mr. John Greaves, Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford (including works by Newton; 2 volumes; London: Printed by J. Hughs for J. Brindley, 1737), by John Greaves, contrib. by Isaac Newton and Thomas Birch (page images at HathiTrust)
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Filed under: Africa -- Description and travel- Africa and its Inhabitants (4 volumes; London: Virtue and Co., ca. 1899), by Elisée Reclus, ed. by A. H. Keane
- Africa: Being an Accurate Description of the Regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the Land of Negroes, Guinee, Aethiopia and the Abyssines, With All the Adjacent Islands, Either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern or Oriental Sea, Belonging Thereunto (London: Printed by T. Johnson for the author, 1670), by John Ogilby (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- An Amateur in Africa (New York: The Adelphi Co., ca. 1925), by C. Lestock Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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
- Africa: Its Partition and its Future (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1898), contrib. by Henry M. Stanley, Harry Thurston Peck, John Scott Keltie, W. T. Stead, Fritz Bley, Paul Guieysse, Charles Lemaire, Henry Norman, George Taubman Goldie, F. D. Lugard, Tristram Charles Sawyer Speedy, Joseph C. Hartzell, Edward Heawood, and Henry K. Carroll
- 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)
- The Negro Around the World (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1925), by Willard Price, illust. by George Annand
- Travels of a Philosopher: or, Observations on the Manners and Arts of Various Nations in Africa and Asia (Augusta: Reprinted by P. Edes, 1797), by Pierre Poivre (HTML at Evans TCP)
- The Blind African Slave, Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace, by Boyrereau Brinch and Benjamin F. Prentiss (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Gorilla Hunters, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
- 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)
- The Black Journey: Across Central Africa With the Citroën Expedition (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1927), by Georges-Marie Haardt and Louis Audouin-Dubreuil (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
- Five Years with the Congo Cannibals (second edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1890), by Herbert Ward, illust. by Victor Semon Pérard and Warren B. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Five Years With the Congo Cannibals (third edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1891), by Herbert Ward, illust. by Victor Semon Pérard and Warren B. Davis
- 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 J. T. 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 (2 volumes; New York: Harper and Bros., 1874), by Georg August Schweinfurth, trans. by Ellen E. Frewer, contrib. by Winwood Reade
- 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 Africa: A Picture of Exploration (2 volumes; London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860), by Richard Francis Burton
- The Lake Regions of Central Equatorial Africa (originally published 1859), by Richard Francis Burton (PDF at burtoniana.org)
- 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)
- Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a Journal of an Expedition Undertaken Under the Auspices of H. B. M.'s Government in the Years 1849-1855 (5 volumes; London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857-1858), by Heinrich Barth
- A Voice From the Congo: Comprising Stories, Anecdotes, and Descriptive Notes (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1910), by Herbert Ward
- 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)
- From Hausaland to Egypt, Through the Sudan (London: Constable and Co., 1910), by Karl 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)
- 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)
- Correspondenzblatt der Afrikanischen Gesellschaft (2 volumes bound together, covering 1873-1878), by Afrikanische Gesellschaft in Deutschland
- 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)
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