Africa -- Discovery and exploration
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Africa -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800
- Africa, Central -- Discovery and exploration
- European exploration of Africa
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Heroes of the Dark Continent, by James W. Buel (illustrated HTML with commentary at erbzine.com)- The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805, Together With Other Documents, Official And Private, Relating To The Same Mission, to Which Is Prefixed an Account of the Life of Mr. Park, by Mungo Park, ed. by J. Whishaw (Gutenberg text)
- Life and Travels of Mungo Park, With a Full Narrative of Subsequent Adventure in Central Africa (Thomas Nelson edition (Edinburgh), mid-1800s), by Mungo Park, ed. by Andrew R. Bonar (Gutenberg text)
- Negroland, or, Light Thrown Upon The Dark Continent: The History of African Exploration and Adventure as Given in the Leading Authorities From Herodotus to the Latest Explorers, Including Livingston, Speke, Baker, Stanley, Johnston, and Others (New York: Hurst and Co., c1881), by Charles H. Jones and H. L. Williams
- Travels in the Interior of Africa (Cassell edition, late 1800s; omits some material in original 1799 edition), by Mungo Park, ed. by Henry Morley
- The Discoveries of Prince Henry the Navigator, and Their Results: Being the Narrative of the Discovery by Sea, Within One Century, of More Than Half the World (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1877), by Richard Henry Major (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Ostafrikanische Studien (in French; Schaffhausen: F. Hurter, 1864), by Werner Munzinger
- The Periplus of Hanno: A Voyage of Discovery Down the West African Coast, by a Carthaginian Admiral of the Fifth Century B.C. (Philadelphia: Commercial Museum, 1912), by Hanno, trans. by Wilfred H. Schoff (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Discourse Intended to Commemorate the Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus: Delivered at the Request of the Historical Society in Massachusetts, on the 23d day of October, 1792, Being the Completion of the Third Century Since That Memorable Event; To Which Are Added Four Dissertations (Boston: Belknap and Hall, 1792), by Jeremy Belknap
- 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
- The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell of Leigh, in Angola and the Adjoining Regions (London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1901), by Andrew Battell, ed. by Ernest Georg Ravenstein, contrib. by Samuel Purchas and Anthony Knivet (multiple formats at archive.org)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Africa- Look at Africa (Headline series #43; New York: Foreign Policy Association, c1943), by R. G. Woolbert and M. S. Woolbert (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Budgeting for the Military Sector in Africa: The Processes and Mechanisms of Control (2006), ed. by Wuyi Omitoogun and Eboe Hutchful (PDF with commentary at sipri.org)
- The Tensions between Culture and Human Rights: Emancipatory Social Work and Afrocentricity in a Global World (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2021), ed. by Vishanthie Sewpaul, Linda Kreitzer, and Tanusha Raniga (PDF files at University of Calgary)
- The Native Problem in Africa (2 volumes; New York: Macmillan, 1928), by Raymond Leslie Buell
- A Book of the Beginnings (2 volumes; London: Williams and Norgate, 1881), by Gerald Massey
- Britain, France and the Decolonization of Africa: Future Imperfect? (London: UCL Press, 2017), ed. by Andrew W. M. Smith and Chris Jeppesen (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)
- Acte Général de la Conférence de Berlin (with its protocols, in French; ca. 1885), by Berlin West Africa Conference (1884-1885 : Berlin, Germany)
- The Native Problem in Africa (2 volumes; New York: Macmillan, 1928), by Raymond Leslie Buell
- An Amateur in Africa (New York: The Adelphi Co., ca. 1925), by C. Lestock Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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 EEBP TCP)
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- Yes Africa Can: Success Stories from a Dynamic Continent (c2011), ed. by Punam Chuhan-Pole and Manka Angwafo (PDF with commentary at World Bank)
- Scarcity, Choice and Public Policy in Middle Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Donald S. Rothchild and Robert L. Curry (HTML at UC Press)
- The Politics of Reform in Ghana, 1982-1991 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Jeffrey Ira Herbst (HTML at UC Press)
- The Lad and the Lion (1938), by Edgar Rice Burroughs (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
- Benita: An African Romance, by H. Rider Haggard (Gutenberg text)
- Black Heart and White Heart, and Other Stories, by H. Rider Haggard (Gutenberg texts)
- A Goddess of Africa: A Story of the Golden Fleece (New York: Hobart Co., c1897), by St. George Rathborne (page images at HathiTrust)
- In Desert and Wilderness (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1917), by Henryk Sienkiewicz, trans. by Max A. Drezmal (Gutenberg text)
- The Ivory Trail, by Talbot Mundy (Gutenberg text)
- The Mission: or, Scenes in Africa, by Frederick Marryat (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The People of the Mist, by H. Rider Haggard (Gutenberg text)
- Tarzan the Mangificent (1939), by Edgar Rice Burroughs (HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
- Tarzan and the Forbidden City (1938), by Edgar Rice Burroughs (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
- Tarzan's Quest (1935), by Edgar Rice Burroughs (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
- Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1927-1928), by Edgar Rice Burroughs (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
- The Treasure of the Lake (1925-1926), by H. Rider Haggard
- The Day of Resis (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., 1897), by Lillian Frances Mentor, illust. by Harry L. V. Parkhurst (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tarzan, Apinain Kuningas: Seikkailuromaani Afrikan Aarniometsistä (Tarzan of the Apes in Finnish; Hämeenlinna: Arvi A. Karisto Osakeyhtiö, 1921), by Edgar Rice Burroughs, trans. by Lauri Karila (Gutenberg text)
- The Eternal Lover (original magazine version; includes section published originally as "Sweetheart Primeval"; see also The Eternal Savage), by Edgar Rice Burroughs (illustrated HTML at erblist.com)
- Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad (Gutenberg text)
- The Heart of Darkness (as originally published in 3 parts in Blackwood's, 1899), by Joseph Conrad (page images at conradfirst.net)
- Jungle Tales of Tarzan, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Gutenberg text)
- King Solomon's Mines, by H. Rider Haggard
- The Life and Adventures of Zamba, an African Negro King, and His Experience of Slavery in South Carolina (London: Smith, Elder, and Co. 1847), by Peter Neilson
- Oroonoko: Or, The Royal Slave, by Aphra Behn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- She, by H. Rider Haggard
- She and Allan, by H. Rider Haggard (Gutenberg text)
- Tarzan of the Apes (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1914), by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Tarzan of the Apes (based on 1990s reprints of the 1914 text, compared with 1960s-1980s paperback editions), by Edgar Rice Burroughs, ed. by Kenneth Fuchs (HTML at erblist.com)
- Tarzan of the Apes (based on 1984 Ballantine edition; some changes from 1914 version), by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Wisdom's Daughter, by H. Rider Haggard (text in Australia)
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