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Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Africa

Fascinating book for all ages telling of travels through Africa over 100 years ago. Covering the continent by steamer and train and other more primitive means of transport, the reader will enjoy learning of African life long before knowledge of this continent was available to most people throughout the world. Summary by BettyB.Note: This text was published more than 100 years ago in 1905.The listener should be aware that the descriptions of the native peoples, their dress and home life reflected the perceptions and thinking of the early 20th century which some listeners may find offensive. (7 hr 39 min)

Chapters

Preface

From New York to Gibraltar

Morocco

Through Interior Morocco

In Fez, the Capital of Morocco

Algeria, General View

In Algiers

The City of Tunis

The Desert of Sahara

In the Oasis off Biskra

A Caravan Ride

Tripoli and its Oases

The Land of the Nile

Egypt- A Trip through the Country

Alexandria and Cairo

Ancient Egypt - The Pyramids and the Sphinx

A Trip through the Suez Canal

Nubia

The Roof of Africa - Abyssinia

Across East Africa by Rail

About Lake Victoria

In Uganda

Elephants and Ivory

The Strange Animals of Africa

In the Sudan

About Kuka and Lake Tchad

In the Land of the Hausas

The Upper Niger - Timbuktu and Jenne

The Spanish Possessions

The Home of the Negro

Senegambia, Sierra Leone aand Liberia - The Kroos

Lagos - A Visit to a West African Factory

The Yorubans - Southern Nigeria

The Home of the Gorilla - Kamerun and French Kongo

The Kongo and Its Basin

Life upon the Kongo

Trade and Commerce of the Kongo

In the Great African Forest - Pygmies

Through German East Africa to the Indian Ocean

Zanzibar

With the Portugese in Africa

British South Africa

Rhodesia - the Zambesi - The Niagara of Africa

Farming in South Africa

A Visit to an Ostrich Farm

Kimberley and the Diamond Mines

The Gold Mines of South Africa - Johannesburg

Natal, the Garden of South Africa

Cape Colony

German Southwest Africa

Angola or Portugese West Africa