exile, African slavery, and the publicity stunt that saved millions
Milbrandt, Jay
David Livingstone set out to find the source of the Nile River in the nineteenth century. The explorer's scientific ambitions are noteworthy but far more important were the contributions he made to the abolition of the slave trade in Africa.
Security consultant Peter Avakian becomes snarled in a complex plot to stage a political coup in central Africa, and is forced to become a CIA mole inside the conspiracy.
Reprint of the 1935 novel about Rose, a spinster working as a missionary in Africa, and Allnutt, a mechanic-of-all-work, who team up out of necessity and hatch a plan to help the war effort by building and launching torpedoes at a German police steamer.
Examines the history, language, lifestyle, social structure, culture, and religion of the major ethnic groups of Central Africa, and includes a chronology, a pictorial history of the region, a glossary, and a language tree.
In 1850 Heinrich Barth joined a small British expedition into unexplored regions of Islamic North and Central Africa. One by one his companions died and Barth alone eventually reached Timbuktu. His five and a half year 10,000 mile journey ranks among the greatest journeys in exploration and his discoveries are considered indispensible by modern scholars of Africa.
A romantic adventure of a disreputable Cockney and a spinster missionary who eventually fight together in retaliation against the Germans in Central Africa.
