Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa : Including accounts of Tripoli, the Sahara, the remarkable kingdom of Bornu, and the countries around Lake Chad

Name: Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa : Including accounts of Tripoli, the Sahara, the remarkable kingdom of Bornu, and the countries around Lake Chad
Author: Heinrich Barth

by Heinrich Barth

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The Minerva library of famous books.

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

London: Ward, Lock, and Co., 1890.

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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

2024-03-11

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Africa, Central -- Description and travel Africa, North -- Description and travel

About the author

Heinrich Barth

1821–1865

Driven by curiosity and remarkable endurance, this 19th-century German explorer became one of the first Europeans to document central and western Africa with real scholarly care. His journeys produced vivid accounts of places, languages, and societies that still matter to historians today.

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