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HIST 499: African History: Primary Sources: Diaries & Travel Journals
Resources for African History
Diaries
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Africa through Western Eyes: Manuscript Records of Traders, Travellers, Soldiers, Missionaries and Diplomats in AfricaCall Number: Microfilm (DT32.5.A48 2000)Publication Date: 1999-200945 microfilm reels. Online guide available in catalog record through link above.
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The Boer War Diary of Sol T. Plaatje: An African at Mafeking byCall Number: Books (DT934.M2 P4)Publication Date: 1973.
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The Diary of A. J. Mounteney Jephson: Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1887-1889Call Number: DT363 .J53ISBN: 9780521010214
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The Diary of Adam Tas, 1705-1706Call Number: DT843 .T2 1971
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The Diary of Erasmus SmitCall Number: Books (BX9595.S63 S613)
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My African Journey by Sir Winston S. ChurchillCall Number: DA566.9.C5 A398 2015
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The South African Diaries of Sir Garnet Wolseley, 1875Call Number: DA68.32.W7 A32
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The Story of the Malakand Field Force by Sir Winston S. ChurchillCall Number: DS392.N67 C48 2015
Journals/Travel
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African discovery: an anthology of exploration byCall Number: DT3 .P4 1942Publication Date: 1942Anthology of writings of British explorers of Africa, 1769-1873
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First Footsteps in East Africa byCall Number: DT401 .B97 1966
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John Muir's Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa: Unpublished Journals and Selected CorrespondenceCall Number: QH31.M78 A3 2001
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Journal and Letter Book of Nicholas Buckeridge, 1651-1654.Call Number: HF486.E6 B8 1973
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The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa in the Year 1805 byCall Number: Google BooksPublication Date: 1815
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The Kingsleys: A Biographical Anthology byCall Number: PR4839.K9 H8Publication Date: 1973Collection of writings by Charles, Henry, and G. H. Kingsley.
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The Travels of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, A.D. 1325-1354Call Number: G490 .I2 1958
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Adventures of Ibn Battuta A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century.Call Number: eBook
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The Story of the Niger: A Record of Travel and Adventure from the Days of Mungo Park to the Present Time byCall Number: Google BooksPublication Date: 1888
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Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo, and across the Great Desert, to Morocco, Performed in the Years 1824-1828 byCall Number: Google BooksPublication Date: 1830
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Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po byCall Number: Google BooksPublication Date: 1863
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What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile byCall Number: Google BooksPublication Date: 1864
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