Africa, West -- Description and travel
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Africa, West -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
- Gambia -- Description and travel
- Ghana -- Description and travel
- Liberia -- Description and travel
- Nigeria -- Description and travel
- Sierra Leone -- Description and travel
- Africa, West -- Description and travel -- 1851-1950
- Africa, West -- Description and travel -- 1951-1980
- Africa, West -- Description and travel -- 1981-
- Africa, West -- Description and travel -- To 1850
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A Pocket Guide to West Africa (1943), by United States Army Service Forces Special Service Division- Alone in West Africa (New York: C. Scribner's Sons; London: T. W. Laurie, ca. 1912), by Mary Gaunt
- Impressions of Western Africa: With Remarks on the Diseases of the Climate and a Report on the Peculiarities of Trade Up the Rivers in the Bight of Biafra (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1858), by Thomas J. Hutchinson (page images at Google)
- In an Elephant Corral, and Other Tales of West African Experiences (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1912), by Robert Hamill Nassau
- Lost in the Jungle (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1900), by Paul B. Du Chaillu (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- Stories of the Gorilla Country, Narrated for Young People (New York: Harper and Brothers, c1867), by Paul B. Du Chaillu (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- Ten Years' Wanderings Among the Ethiopians: With Sketches of the Manners and Customs of the Civilized and Uncivilized Tribes, From Senegal to Gaboon (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1861), by Thomas J. Hutchinson (page images at Google)
- Travels in Madeira, Sierra Leone, Teneriffe, St. Jago, Cape Coast, Fernando Po, Princes Island, etc. etc. (second edition; London: G. Routledge, 1840), by James Holman (page images at Google)
- Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, by Richard Francis Burton
- We Two in West Africa (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1909), by Decima Moore and Frederick Gordon Guggisberg (page images at HathiTrust)
- Western Africa: Its History, Condition, and Prospects (New York: Harper and Bros., 1856), by J. Leighton Wilson
- Wild Life Under the Equator, Narrated for Young People (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1869), by Paul B. Du Chaillu (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- Trader Horn: Being the Life and Works of Alfred Aloysius Horn (single volume; New York: Simon and Schuster, 1927), by Trader Horn, ed. by Ethelreda Lewis, contrib. by John Galsworthy (page images at HathiTrust)
- Journal of an African Cruiser: Comprising Sketches of the Canaries, the Cape de Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, and Other Places of Interest on the West Coast of Africa (London: Wiley and Putnam, 1845), by Horatio Bridge, ed. by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Gutenberg text)
- 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
- Recollections of Central America and the West Coast of Africa (London: T. C. Newby, 1869), by Mrs. Henry Grant (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons (unabridged; London and New York: Macmillan, 1897), by Mary Henrietta Kingsley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons (abridged edition, 1897), by Mary Henrietta Kingsley (Gutenberg text)
- West African Studies (London and New York: Macmillan, 1899), by Mary Henrietta Kingsley
- The Advance of Our West African Empire (London: T. F. Unwin, 1903), by C. Braithwaite Wallis
- Missions de Gironcourt en Afrique Occidentale, 1908/1909 - 1911/1912: Documents Scientifiques (in French; Paris: Société de Géographie, 1920), by G. de Gironcourt
- Two Voyages to Sierra Leone During the Years 1791-2-3, in a Series of Letters (second edition; London: Printed for the author, 1794), by A. M. Falconbridge (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Looking-Glass: Being a True Report and Narrative of the Life, Travels, and Labors of the Rev. Daniel H. Peterson, a Colored Clergyman; Embracing a Period of Time from the Year 1812 to 1854, and Including His Visit to Western Africa (New York: Wright, 1854), by Daniel H. Peterson (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- The Golden Trade: or, A Discovery of the River Gambra, and the Golden Trade of the Aethiopians, by Richard Jobson
- 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)
- Letters From a Bush Campaign (London, S. H. E. Foxwell, ca. 1902), by David Martineau Haylings (page images at HathiTrust)
- Our Days on the Gold Coast in Ashanti, in the Northern Territories, and the British Sphere of Occupation in Togoland (London: J. Murray, 1919), ed. by Mrs. Henry De La Pasture
- To the Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative (2 volumes; London: Chatto and Windus, 1883), by Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron
- To the Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative, by Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron
- Travels and Life in Ashanti and Jaman (New York: F. A. Stokes, 1898), by R. Austin Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Siege of Kumassi (London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1901), by Lady Hodgson (page images at Google; US access only)
- Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party (New York: T. Hamilton; et al., 1861), by Martin Robison Delany (page images at HathiTrust)
- Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party (from a reprint edition, date unknown), by Martin Robison Delany (Gutenberg text)
- The Looking-Glass: Being a True Report and Narrative of the Life, Travels, and Labors of the Rev. Daniel H. Peterson, a Colored Clergyman; Embracing a Period of Time from the Year 1812 to 1854, and Including His Visit to Western Africa (New York: Wright, 1854), by Daniel H. Peterson (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- Journal of a Second Expedition Into the Interior of Africa, From the Bight of Benin to Soccatoo (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Carey, 1829), by Hugh Clapperton, contrib. by Richard Lander and Abraham V. Salemé
- A Resident's Wife in Nigeria (London: G. Routledge and Sons; New York, E. P. Dutton and Co., 1908), by Constance Belcher Larymore
- In the Shadow of the Bush (New York: G. H. Doran Co.; London: W. Heinemann, 1912), by Percy Amaury Talbot (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains: An Exploration (2 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1863), by Richard Francis Burton
- A Residence at Sierra Leone (London: J. Murray, 1849), by Elizabeth Helen Callander Melville, ed. by Caroline Sheridan Norton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Two Voyages to Sierra Leone During the Years 1791-2-3, in a Series of Letters (second edition; London: Printed for the author, 1794), by A. M. Falconbridge (page images at HathiTrust)
- Everyday Life Among the Head-Hunters, and Other Experiences from East To West (London et al: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1905), by Dorothy Cator (multiple formats at archive.org)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Africa, West -- Civilization- Der Westafrikanische Kulturkreis (text in German; 1897), by Leo Frobenius
- The British Case in French Congo: The Story of a Great Injustice, its Causes and its Lessons (London: W. Heinemann, 1903), by E. D. Morel (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Royal African: or, Memoirs of the Young Prince of Annamaboe (second edition; London: Printed for W. Reeve, G. Woodfall, and J. Barnes, 1750) (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- The Leopard's Claw (New York: International Authors' Association, c1917), by George Washington Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sanders (c1926; this edition 1930), by Edgar Wallace (text in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Sanders of the River (London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock and Co., c1911), by Edgar Wallace
- The Keepers of the King's Peace (first published 1917), by Edgar Wallace
- The Story of West Africa (London: H. Marshall and Son, ca. 1899), by Mary Henrietta Kingsley (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Middy of the Slave Squadron: A West African Story, by Harry Collingwood, illust. by D. L. Mays
- Ghana: A Country Study (third edition, 1995), ed. by LaVerle Bennette Berry (multiple formats at loc.gov)
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