The lake regions of Central Africa [electronic resource] : Volume 2 : From Zanzibar to Lake Tanganyika / by Richard F. Burton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890.

Series:

Lake regions of central Africa ; v. 1.

The lake regions of central Africa ; v.1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Africa, Central--Description and travel.

Africa, Central.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 p.)

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Narrative Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sir Richard Burton was a brilliant and complex explorer, linguist, adventurer, scholar and swordsman. Lake Regions of Central Africa is the narrative of three years' hard travel from Zanzibar to Lake Tanganyika to try and discover the source of the Nile. The journey was often fraught with danger; Burton was told before he set out that natives would be waiting in the trees to shoot them with poisoned arrows, and that armies of elephants would attack their camps at night.

Contents:

Intro

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

WE QUIT ZANZIBAR ISLAND IN DIGNIFIED STYLE

ZANZIBAR AND THE MRIMA EXPLAINED

TRANSIT OF THE VALLEY OF THE KINGANI AND THE MGETA RIVERS

ON THE GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY OF THE FIRST REGION

HALT AT ZUNGOMERO, AND FORMATION OF THE CARAVAN

WE CROSS THE EAST AFRICAN GHAUTS

THE GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY OF THE SECOND REGION

WE SUCCEED IN TRAVERSING UGOGO

THE GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNOGRAPHY OF UGOGO, - THE THIRD REGION

WE ENTER UNYAMWEZI, THE FAR- FAMED LAND OF THE MOON

WE CONCLUDE THE TRANSIT OF UNYAMWEZI.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

OCLC:

767109723