Travels Explorations and Empires 1770-1835 Part II vol 7

A collection of work that attempts to reflect the diversity of travel literature from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This literature often reveals something of the cultural and gender difference of the travellers, as well as ideas on colonialism, anthropology and slavery. <p>Part II Volume 7: Africa Mansfield Parkyns, Life in Abyssinia: Being Notes Collected during Three Years' Residence and Travels in that Country (1853); David Livingstone, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; thence across the Continent, down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean (1857); William Charles Baldwin, African Hunting, from Natal to the Zambesi: including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, etc., from 1852 to 1860 (1863); John Hanning Speke, Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1863); Richard F. Burton, A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome, [1864] (1893); Henry M. Stanley, How I Found Livingstone. Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa; including Four Months' Residence with Dr. Livingstone (1872); Anna Hinderer, Seventeen Years in the Yoruba Country: Memorials of Anna Hinderer, wife of the Rev. David Hinderer, C.M.S. missionary in Western Africa (1872); Verney Lovett Cameron, Across Africa (1877); Amelia B. Edwards, A Thousand Miles up the Nile (1877); Annie B. Hore, To Lake Tanganyika in a Bath Chair (1886); Henry M. Stanley, In Darkest Africa or the Quest Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria (1890); James Sligo Jameson, The Story of The Rear Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition by the Late James S. Jameson, Naturalist to the Expedition (1890); Herbert Ward, Five Years with the Congo Cannibals (1890); Helen Caddick, A White Woman in Central Africa (1900) </p>