HIST 499: African History: Diaries/Journals/Travel

45 microfilm reels; microfilm index in microfilm index alcove under same call number.

Description: Includes the complaints of the freeburghers against the Governor, Willem Adriaan van der Stel.
Re-issue, with new English translation, of the 1914 ed. published by the South African Library, Dutch and English.

"The only contemporary account of the daily life of a party of frontiersmen emigrating from the Cape Colony and invading the territory north of the Orange river ..."--Page v. Translation of "Uit het Dagboek" van Erasmus Smit.

Hugh Clapperton, Scottish explorer and diplomat, made two expeditions into the interior of West Africa, the first across the Sahara Desert and the second inland from the Bight of Benin. His first expedition in 1822-24, crossed the Sahara to Borno. A second expedition, also an official mission of the British Government, was undertaken in 1825-27 and is the subject of this volume. Clapperton's diaries have been transcribed and reproduced in a form as close as possible to the original raw material.

Series: South African Biographical and Historical Studies; 11.

Series: Robins series ; no. 2.

Series: Travellers and Explorers.

"I am now writing up some notes, but when they will be ready for publication I do not know... It will be a long time before anything is arranged in book form." These words of John Muir, written in June 1912 to a friend, proved prophetic. The journals and notes to which the great naturalist and environmental figure was referring have languished, unpublished and virtually untouched, for nearly a century. Until now. Here edited and published for the first time, John Muir's travel journals from 1911-12, along with his associated correspondence, finally allow us to read in his own words the remarkable story of John Muir's last great journey. Leaving from Brooklyn, New York, in August 1911, John Muir, at the age of seventy-three and traveling alone, embarked on an eight-month, 40,000-mile voyage to South America and Africa. The 1911-12 journals and correspondence reproduced in this volume allow us to travel with him up the great Amazon, into the jungles of southern Brazil, to snowline in the Andes, through southern and central Africa to the headwaters of the Nile, and across six oceans and seas in order to reach the rare forests he had so long wished to study. Although this epic journey has received almost no attention from the many commentators on Muir's work, Muir himself considered it among the most important of his life and the fulfillment of a decades-long dream. John Muir's Last Journey provides a rare glimpse of a Muir whose interests as a naturalist, traveler, and conservationist extended well beyond the mountains of California. It also helps us to see John Muir as a different kind of hero, one whose endurance and intellectual curiosity carried him into far fields of adventure even as he aged, and as a private person and family man with genuine affections, ambitions, and fears, not just an iconic representative of American wilderness. With an introduction that sets Muir's trip in the context of his life and work, along with chapter introductions and a wealth of explanatory notes, the book adds important dimensions to our appreciation of one of America's greatest environmentalists. John Muir's Last Journey is a must reading for students and scholars of environmental history, American literature, natural history, and related fields, as well as for naturalists and armchair travelers everywhere.

Series: Library of English Literature; LEL 12726.

Collection of writings by C., H. and G. Kingsley.

Listing of the Liberian Animal Specimens Elaborated to DateLiterature Cited; Index; Map of Liberia
Büttikofer's Travel Sketches from Liberia details the development of the Liberian nation and the intricate, often volatile, relationships between the country's indigenous peoples and its black colonists from America. In remarkable detail, it provides vivid images of the country's past.
Description based upon print version of record. Series: Sources for African History.

Description: v. 1. North-west Africa and Egypt. Syria. From Damascus to Mecca. Mecca. From Mecca to Kufa -- v. 2. Southern Persia and 'Iraq. Southern Arabia, East Africa, and the Persian Gulf. Asia Minor and South Russia -- v. 3. Turkestan and Khurasan. Sind and north-western India. The city of Dihli and its sultans. Sultan Muhammad Ibn Tughluq. The reign of Sultan Muhammad Ibn Tughluq. Ibn Battuta's stay in Dihli -- v. 4. From Dihli to Kinbaya. South India. The Maldives. Ceylon. Coromandel, Malabar and the Maldives. Bengal and Assam. South-East Asia. China. From China to Morocco. Spain. The Country of the Blacks -- v. 5. index to v. 1-4.
Vol. 4: the translation completed with annotations by C.F. Beckingham. Vol. 5: index to v. 1-4, compiled by A.D.H. Bivar.

Reprint of the 1864 ed.

Facsimile reprint of first English ed., London, Colburn & Bentley, 1830; originally published as Journal d'un voyage à Temboctou et à Jenné. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1830.

By the end of the eighteenth century, British travellers had fanned out to every corner of the world, driven by widely varying motives: scientific curiosity, commerce, colonization, diplomacy, exploration, and tourism. In letters, journals, and books, travellers wrote at first-hand of exotic lands and beautiful scenery, and of encounters with strange peoples and wildlife. This anthology brings together the best writing from authors such as Daniel Defoe, Mary Wollstonecraft, Olaudah. Equiano, Mungo Park, Maria Nugent and many others, to provide a comprehensive selection from this emerging liter
Description based upon print version of record.

2 vols.

Journal of Adventures in Somali Land.--Journal of a Cruise on the Tanganyika Lake. Facsimile reprint of 1st ed., Edinburgh, London, Blackwood, 1864.
Series: Cass Library of African Studies. Travels and Narratives; no. 18.