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  • Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo and Across the Great Desert to Morocco (V.2)

    1824-1828

    by René Caillié, M. Jomard ...
    In "Travels Through Central Africa to Timbuctoo and Across the Great Desert to Morocco (V.2)", the reader embarks on an extraordinary voyage through the vast and enigmatic landscapes of 19th-century Africa. This collection encapsulates the indomitable spirit of exploration that characterized the era, delivering a tapestry of experiences from the scrubby plains of Central Africa to the majestic ... Read more

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  • Exploration and Travel: five books by Richard Burton

    by Richard Burton ...
    This file includes: First Footsteps in East Africa or an Exploration of Harar; The Land of Midian (Revisited); Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah; To the Gold Coast for Gold, a Personal Narrative; and Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo. According to Wikipedia: "Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton (19 March 1821 20 October 1890) was a British geographer ... Read more

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  • Travels into Bokhara

    A Voyage up the Indus to Lahore and a Journey to Cabool, Tartary & Persia

    by Alexander Burnes ...
    At the age of only twenty six, Alexander Burnes proved himself to be one of the most effective intelligence agents of his time. Making two dangerous journeys beyond the frontiers of the Indian Empire, he reported back via the East India Company to Downing Street on the geography and politics of the kingdoms that lay to the northwest as far as fabled Bokhara. He travelled simply, disguised as a ... Read more

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  • Through the Dark Continent, Vol. 1

    by Henry M. Stanley ...
    Perhaps best known as the intrepid adventurer who located the missing explorer David Livingstone in equatorial Africa in 1871, Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) played a major role in assembling the fragmented discoveries and uncertain geographical knowledge of central Africa into a coherent picture. He was the first European to explore the Congo River; assisted at the founding of the Congo Free ... Read more

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  • Travels in Egypt and Nubia: Belzoni (Expanded, Annotated)

    by Giovanni Battista Belzoni ...
    A GIANT AMONG ADVENTURERS AND EXPLORERSAmong the noted explorers and adventurers of the great age of discovery, few can compare with the Great Belzoni.No study of the modern exploration of ancient Egypt is complete without his extraordinary work. Once a circus strongman, trained as an engineer, he spent many years on the Nile in Egypt and Nubia studying the ancient ruins and shipping antiquities ... Read more

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  • The Adventures of Thomas Pellow

    Three and twenty years in captivity among the Moors

    by Thomas Pellow ...
    In the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow was captured at sea by Barbary pirates and sold into human bondage to the despotic sultan of Morocco. This riveting memoir of a slave narrative is a story of pluck, and endurance in the face of barbaric splendour and suffering. A remarkable testament to the strength of the human spirit and to all those snatched from their homes and ... Read more

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  • Travels Into Bokhara

    A Voyage up the Indus to Lahore and a Journey to Cabool, Tartary & Persia

    by Alexander Burnes ...
    ‘The Great Game’ (also referred to as the Tournament of Shadows) is a term used to describe the political and diplomatic confrontation that existed during most of the 19th Century between the British Empire and the Russian Empire centered around Afghanistan and its surrounding regions. The classic Great Game period is generally regarded as running approximately from the Russo-Persian Treaty of ... Read more

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  • Travels into the Interior of Africa

    by Mungo Park ...
    Mungo Park's account of his journeys into West Africa in 1795 and again in 1805 provided Europeans with their first reliable description of the interior of the continent. Though he failed in the object of his mission -to chart the course of the Niger River -he succeeded in leaving a unique record of everyday life before the exploitation of Africa by Europeans, as valuable today as it was then. His ... Read more

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  • Travels in the Interior of Africa

    by Mungo Park, Bernard Waites, Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    With an Introduction and Notes by Bernard Waites, The Open UniversityIn 1795 Mungo Park, a twenty-four year old Scottish surgeon, set out from the Gambia to trace the course of the Niger, a river of which Europeans had no first-hand knowledge. Travels in the interior districts of Africa… is his Journal of that extraordinary journey. He travelled on the sufferance of African rulers and soon came to ... Read more

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  • A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by James Justinian Morier ...
    Excerpt from A Journey Through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809: In Which Is Included, Some Account of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Mission, Under Sir Harford Jones, Bart, K. C., To the Court of the King of Persia. "Amasia, is the result of my own observation, corrected by the same masterly hand. It terminates at Amasia, because my journey from ... Read more

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  • A second journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia minor, to Constantinople, in the years 1810 and 1816

    by Morier, James ...
    James Justinian Morier (1780 - 1849) was an English diplomat and author noted for his novels about Persia. He first visited Persia in 1808-09 with an account of his Eastern experiences published in 1812 under the title A Journey through Persia, Armenia and Asia Minor to Constantinople in 1808. From 1810 to 1816 he was the British representative at the court (Secretary of Legation) of Persia, and ... Read more

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  • Travels into Bokhara

    by Alexander Burnes ...
    ‘The Great Game’ (also referred to as the Tournament of Shadows) is a term used to describe the political and diplomatic confrontation that existed during most of the 19th Century between the British Empire and the Russian Empire centered around Afghanistan and its surrounding regions. The classic Great Game period is generally regarded as running approximately from the Russo-Persian Treaty of ... Read more

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