The Gates of Africa
by Anthony Sattin | 
The Fortunes of Africa
by Martin Meredith |
A short history of Africa
by Roland Oliver |
Africa
by John Reader | 
The Fate of Africa
by Martin Meredith | 
The Race for Timbuktu
by Frank T. Kryza |
The Scramble for Africa: 1876-1912
by Thomas Pakenham | 
The Africans
by David Lamb |
The Last Expedition
by Daniel Liebowitz | 
African Perspectives on Colonialism
by A. Adu Boahen | 
Into Africa
by Martin Dugard | 
The White Nile
by Alan Moorehead | 
The Blue Nile
by Alan Moorehead | 
Divide and Rule
by H. L. Wesseling | 
The Worst Hard Time
by Timothy Egan | 
Explorers of the Nile
by Tim Jeal |
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945
by Max Hastings | 
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof
by J. A. Rogers | 
Dreamers and Deceivers
by Glenn Beck | 
Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea
by Daniel V. Gallery |
Many outstanding men--James Bruce, Richard Francis Burton, David Livingstone, Henry Morton Stanley, and others--won lasting fame from their African journeys. Africa Explored collects their amazing tales of treks into the unknown. These tales of Europeans in Africa before the wave of colonialism mix exotic sights and startling customs with sympathetic meetings of Africa's people and scenes of sublime beauty. Africa Explored relates Mungo Park's being robbed and left for dead in the West African desert, then saved by repeated acts of kindness; Burton and Speke's search for the legendary Mountains of the Moon that fed the Nile; Alexander Laing's fatal voyage to Timbuktu; Livingston's journeys up the Zambezi River; German missionary Johannes Rebmann's astonishment at beholding the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro; and other incredible encounters with strange animals, the slave trade, crippling diseases, and desert nomads.