Cairo to Kisumu : Egypt—The Sudan—Kenya Colony

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Cairo to Kisumu : Egypt—The Sudan—Kenya Colony

by Frank G. (Frank George) Carpenter

EN·~9 hours·43 chapters

Chapters

43 total

CARPENTER’S

0:54

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

2:20

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

3:02

CAIRO TO KISUMU EGYPT—THE SUDAN—KENYA COLONY

0:02

CHAPTER I JUST A WORD BEFORE WE START

3:02

CHAPTER II THE GATEWAY TO EGYPT

16:41

CHAPTER III KING COTTON ON THE NILE

15:26

CHAPTER IV THROUGH OLD EGYPT TO CAIRO

11:44

CHAPTER V FELLAHEEN ON THEIR FARMS

22:17

CHAPTER VI THE PROPHET’S BIRTHDAY

14:22

Description

A vivid, first‑hand account follows one traveler as he journeys from the bustling streets of Cairo down the Nile, across the arid expanses of the Sudan, and onward to the highlands of Kenya. Along the way he pauses at iconic sites—the towering Aswan Dam, the ancient pyramids, the lively bazaars of Old Cairo—and shares candid conversations with locals, from cotton dockworkers to Nubian fruit sellers. The narrative is peppered with personal anecdotes, cultural insights, and observations of everyday life that bring the regions to a palpable immediacy.

Accompanying the prose are more than a hundred original photographs and two colour maps that illustrate the diverse landscapes and peoples encountered. Readers are treated to vivid depictions of river‑side villages, bustling ports, and the early railway that stitches the continent together. The book offers a richly textured portrait of early twentieth‑century Africa, inviting listeners to explore distant lands through the eyes of an inquisitive, observant traveler.

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Language

en

Duration

~9 hours (523K characters)

Series

Carpenter's world travels

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923.

Credits

Peter Becker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2023-09-14

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Frank G. (Frank George) Carpenter

Frank G. (Frank George) Carpenter

1855–1924

A globe-trotting journalist and travel writer, he brought distant places to American readers through lively reporting, photographs, and popular geography books. His "Carpenter's World Travels" series helped turn world geography into something vivid and personal for early 20th-century audiences.

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