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Across Africa
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Across Africa
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To the Gold Coast for Gold
"To the Gold Coast for Gold" from Verney Lovett Cameron. English traveller in Central Africa and the first European to cross equatorial Africa from sea to sea (1844-1894).
To the Gold Coast for Gold
First published in 1883, this travel memoir describes the journey into West Africa undertaken by explorers Richard Burton (1821-90) and Verney Lovett Cameron (1844-94) in 1881. The mission for the two men was to assess the mining potential of the west coast, first observed by Burton in a publication that had appeared twenty years earlier. The first few chapters of Volume 1 cover Burton's journey from Trieste to Lisbon, Madeira and Tenerife and on to Africa during the winter of 1881, including descriptions of Mount Atlas and the Canary Islands. The volume finishes with their arrival in Sierra Leone. The expedition was cut short by the Foreign Office, who feared for the safety of the two explorers. Burton returned to Europe with a large collection of plant and animal specimens, and the pair sent 151 plant species, lists of which are included in the appendices, to Kew Gardens.
Three Sailor Boys; or, Adrift in the Pacific
Reproduction of the original.
In Savage Africa
This book is about historical fiction. It is about Africa's history.
Across Africa
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To the Gold Coast for Gold
In the mid-19th century, two British explorers set out on a dangerous journey to find gold on the harsh and unforgiving Gold Coast of Africa. Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron's personal account of their adventure is a must-read for anyone interested in African exploration and the history of the British Empire. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Travellers in Africa
Works of travel have been the subject of increasingly sophisticated studies in recent years. This book undermines the conviction with which nineteenth-century British writers talked about darkest Africa. It places the works of travel within the rapidly developing dynamic of Victorian imperialism. Images of Abyssinia and the means of communicating those images changed in response to social developments in Britain. As bourgeois values became increasingly important in the nineteenth century and technology advanced, the distance between the consumer and the product were justified by the scorn of African ways of eating. The book argues that the ambiguities and ambivalence of the travellers are re...
Among Africa
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