Author: Paul Belloni Du ChailluPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa
Author: Paul Belloni Du ChailluPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Between Man and Beast
Author: Monte ReelPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307742431
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
In 1856, Paul Du Chaillu ventured into the African jungle in search of a mythic beast, the gorilla. After wild encounters with vicious cannibals, deadly snakes, and tribal kings, Du Chaillu emerged with 20 preserved gorilla skins—two of which were stuffed and brought on tour—and walked smack dab into the biggest scientific debate of the time: Darwin's theory of evolution. Quickly, Du Chaillu's trophies went from objects of wonder to key pieces in an all-out intellectual war. With a wide range of characters, including Abraham Lincoln, Arthur Conan Doyle, P.T Barnum, Thackeray, and of course, Charles Darwin, this is a one of a kind book about a singular moment in history.
Wild Life Under the Equator
Author: Paul Belloni Du ChailluPublisher:
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Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Explorations & Adventures in Equatorial Africa
Author: Paul Belloni Du ChailluPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa
Author: Paul B. Du ChailluPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Explorations & Adventures in Equatorial Africa with Accounts of the Maners and Customs of the People, and of the Chance of the Gorilla ... by Paul B. Du Chaillu
Author: Paul Belloni Du ChailluPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
My Apingi Kingdom: with Life in the Great Sahara, and Sketches of the Chase of the Ostrich, Hyena, & C
Author: Paul Du ChailluNegroland
Author: Charles H. JonesPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338544893X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
The Life and African Exploration of David Livingstone
Author: David LivingstonePublisher: Cooper Square Press
ISBN: 1461661129
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
During his travels as a missionary, David Livingstone beheld many previously unknown wonders of the African interior. He put Victoria Falls and Lake Ngami on the map, and was the first white man to cross the African continent. Diaries, reports and letters are combined to create a wonderful narration of Livingstone's travels in a widely unknown continent. Included in this harrowing tale is Livingstone's narrow escape from a lion's wrath, his negotiations with an African chief, and his account of the Portuguese slave traders brutally punishing slaves after their attempt to escape. The Life and African Explorations of Livingstone also reveals Livingstone's deeply-rooted Christian beliefs and the strength he took from them, strength that allowed him to live and thrive amid the hardships of equatorial Africa.
Land of Tears
Author: Robert HarmsPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1541699661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
A prizewinning historian's epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s the rainforest of the Congo River basin was one of the most brutally exploited places on earth. In Land of Tears, historian Robert Harms reconstructs the chaotic process by which this happened. Beginning in the 1870s, traders, explorers, and empire builders from Arabia, Europe, and America moved rapidly into the region, where they pioneered a deadly trade in ivory and rubber for Western markets and in enslaved labor for the Indian Ocean rim. Imperial conquest followed close behind. Ranging from remote African villages to European diplomatic meetings to Connecticut piano-key factories, Land of Tears reveals how equatorial Africa became fully, fatefully, and tragically enmeshed within our global world.