Primary Sources and Archival Collections.
Central Africa
Adolf Friedrich, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin / In the Heart
of Africa.
London : Cassell and Co., Ltd., 1910.
DT351
.F102
From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile; an account of the
German Central African expedition of 1910-1911. London
: Duckworth & Co., 1913.
DT351
F13
Alexander, Boyd / From the Niger to the Nile. London
: E. Arnold, 1907.
DT351
F073 (v. 1-2)
Boyd Alexander's last journey. New York :
Longmans, 1912.
DT351
.F12
Baker, Samuel White / Ismaili; a narrative of the expedition
to Central Africa for the suppression of the slave trade.
Organized by Ismail, khedive of Egypt. New York : Harper
& brothers, 1875.
DT361
E75
Bartellot, Edmund Musgrave / Journal et correspondance du major
Edmund Musgrave Barttelot commandant l'arrière-colonne dans
l'expédition Stanley à la recherche et au secours
d'Emin Pacha. Bruxelles : Lubegue, 1891.
DT363.E913
Les Belges dans l'Afrique centrale : voyages, aventures et
découvertes d'après les documents et journaux des
explorateurs. Bruxelles : P. Maes, 1886.
DT351
E86 (v. 1-3)
Bellingham, William / The diary of a working man (William Bellingham)
in Central Africa, December, 1884, to October 1887.
Edited by J. Cooke Yarborough.
London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1890.
DT351
E907
Bourne, H.R. Fox / Other side of the Emin Pasha relief expedition.
London : Chatto, 1891.
DT363
.E91
Burton, Richard Francis / The lake regions of Central Africa:
A picture exploration. London: Longman, Green,
Longman, and Roberts, 1860.
DT361
E601 (v. 1-2)
Caddick, Helen / A white woman in central Africa. London : T.F. Unwin, 1900. DT351 F00 (storage)
Cameron, Verney Lovett / Across Africa. London :
Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1877.
DT361
.E771 (v. 1-2)
Chaille-Long, Charles / Central Africa: naked truths of naked
people. An account of expeditions to the Lake Victoria Nyanza
and the Makraka Niam-Niam, west of the Bahr-el-Abiad (White Nile).
New York : Harper & Brothers, 1877.
DT361
E76
Chevalier, Auguste / L'Afrique centrale française. Récit
du voyage de la mission, par Auguste Chevalier. Paris
: A. Challamel, 1907.
DT546
F07
Coillard, Francois / On the threshold of Central Africa; a
record of twenty years' pioneering among the Barotsi of the Upper
Zambesi. Translated from the French and edited by Catherine
Winkworth Mackintosh. London : Hodder and Stoughton,
1897.
DT963.9.B3
E97
Decle , Lionel / Three years in savage
Africa. London : Methuen & Co., 1898.
DT361
E98
Drummond, Henry / Tropical Africa. New York : Scribner and Welford, 1888. DT361 E89
Elton, James Frederick / Travels and researches among the lakes
and mountains of Eastern & Central Africa. From the journals
of the late J. Frederic Elton. Ed. and completed by
H. B. Cotterill. London : J. Murray, 1879.
DT365
E79
Filippi, Filippo de / Ruwenzori; an account of the expedition
of H. R. H. Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, duke of the Abruzzi.
London : A. Constable and Co., Ltd., 1909.
DT351
F082
(For the French edition of this account, see DT665.R98
F09;
or in Italian, see DT665.R98
F08.)
Foà, Edouard / La traversée de l'Afrique du Zambèze
au Congo français. Paris : Plon-Nourrit,
1900.
DT11
.F001
Geil, William Edgar / A Yankee in pigmy land. London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1908. DT351 .F081
Gide, André / Travels in the Congo. Translated
from the French by Dorothy Bussy. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1927.
DT546
.G53
(Original French - DT546
.F27)
Giraud, Victor / Les lacs de l'Afrique équatoriale;
voyage d'exploration exécuté de 1883 à 1885.
Paris: Hachette, 1890.
DT361
.G52
Heuglin, Theodor / Reise in das Gebiet des Weissen Nil und
seiner westlichen Zuflüsse in den Jahren 1862-1864.
Leipzig : C.F. Winter, 1869.
DT117
.E69
Jephson, A.J. Moneteney / Emin Pasha and the rebellion at the
equator; a story of nine months' experience in the last of the Soudan
provinces. New York : C. Scribner's Sons,
1890.
DT363
E90
Stories told in an African forest by grown-up children of Africa.
London : S. Low, Marston and Co., 1893.
PR4825.J23
S8 E93
Johnson, Thomas Broadwood / Tramps round the Mountains of the
Moon and through the back gate of the Congo State. London
: T.F. Unwin, 1908.
DT644
F081
Johnston, Harry H. (See also, Liberia,
Tanzania,
Uganda, North Africa)
The river Congo, from its mouth to Bologo: a general description
of the natural history and anthropology of its western basin.
London : Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1895. DT639
E95
British Central Africa; an attempt to give some
account of a portion of the territories under British influence,
north of the Zambesi. New York : Arnold,
1897.
DT858
E97
Junker, Wilhelm / Travels in Africa during the years 1875[-1886].
Tr. from the German by A.H. Keane. London : Chapman
and Hall, ltd., 1890.
DT351
E902 (v. 1 - 3)
Kerr, Walter Montagu / The far interior: a narrative of travel
and adventure from the Cape of Good Hope across the Zambesi to the
lake regions of Central Africa.
London : S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886.
DT756
.E86 (v. 1 - 2)
Kumm, Hermann Karl Wilhelm / From Hausaland to Egypt, through
the Sudan . London : Constable and Co., Ltd.,
1910.
DT124
F10
Livingstone, David (see also, Missions).
African journal, 1853-1856. Edited with an introd.
By I. Schapera.
London : Chatto & Windus, 1963.
DT731.L7
F63 (v. 1-2)
The last journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa, from
1865 to his death; continued by a narrative of his last moments
and sufferings, obtained from his faithful servants, Chuma and Susi,
by Horace Waller. London : J. Murray, 1874.
DT731.L7
E74 (v. 1-2)
Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries;
and of the discovery of the lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864.
London : J. Murray, 1865.
DT731.L7
E65
Lloyd, Albert B / In dwarf land and cannibal country; a record
of travel and discovery in Central Africa. New York
: Dutton, 1907.
DT351
.F07
Macleod, Olive / Chiefs and cities of Central Africa, across
Lake Chad by way of British, French, and German territories.
London : W. Blackwood & Sons, 1912.
DT356
F12
Maturin, Edith Money / Adventures beyond the Zambesi, of the
O'Flaherty, the Insular Miss, the Soldier Man, and the Rebel-woman.
New York : Brentano's, 1913.
DT351
F132
Rankin, Daniel / The Zambesi Basin and Nyassaland.
Edinburgh : W. Blackwood & sons, 1893.
DT361
.E93
Richardson, James / Narrative of a mission to Central Africa,
performed in the years 1850-51. London : Chapman,
1853.
DT351
E53
Schillings, Karl Georg / In wildest Africa, by C.G. Schillings,
Tr. By Frederic Whyte. With over 300 photographic studies
direct from the author's negatives, taken by day and night; and
other illustrations. New York : Harper & Brothers,
1907.
SK251
F07 (For German edition, see SK255.E2
F061)
Schweinfurth, Georg August / The Heart of Africa. Three
years' travels and adventures in the unexplored regions of Central
Africa from 1868 to 1871 .
New York : Harper, 1874.
DT361
E74 (v. 1-2)
Stanley and Africa. By the author of "The life of General
Gordon." London : W. Scott, 1890.
DT351.S9
E903
Stanley, Henry Morton / Through the dark continent: or, The
sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa,
and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean.
New York : Harper & Brothers, 1878.
DT351
.S83 (v. 1-2)
How I found Livingstone: Travels, adventures, and discoveries
in Central Africa, including four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone.
London : Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington,
1890.
DT351
.E905
In darkest Africa; or, The quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin,
governor of Equatoria. New York : C. Scribner's
Sons, 1890.
DT351
.E901 (v. 1-2)
The story of Emin's rescue as told in Stanley's letters; pub. by Mr. Stanley's permission, ed. by J. Scott Keltie. With map of the route. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1890. DT351 E89
Swann, Alfred James / Fighting the slave-hunters in Central
Africa; a record of twenty-six years of travel & adventure round
the Great Lakes and of the overthrow of Tip-pu-tib, Rumaliza, and
other great slave-traders. Philadelphia : J.B.
Lippincott Co., 1910.
DT
351 .F10
Taylor, Bayard / The lake regions of Central Africa.
New York : Negro University Press, 1969 (reprint of 1881 volume).
DT361
E812
Torday, Emil / Camp and tramp in African wilds; a record of
adventure, impressions, and experiences during many years spent
among the savage tribes round Lake Tanganyika and in Central Africa,
with a description of native life, character, and customs.
London : Seeley, Service, & Co., 1913.
DT639
F13
Wissmann, Hermann von / My second journey through equatorial
Africa from the Congo to the Zambesi, in the years 1886 and 1887.
Tr. from the German by Minna J.A. Bergmann. London
: Chatto & Windus, 1891.
DT351
E91
Wollaston, A.F.R. / From the Ruwenzori to the Congo: a naturalist's
journey across Africa. London : J. Murray, 1908.
DT351
F08
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East Africa
Chanler, William Astor / Through jungle and desert; travels
in Eastern Africa.
New York : Macmillan, 1896.
DT425
.E96
Fitzgerald, William Walter Augustine / Travels in the coastlands
of British East Africa and the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba; their
agricultural resources and general characteristics.
London : Chapman and Hall, 1898.
DT425
.E98
Hohnel, Ludwig Ritter von / Discovery of lakes Rudolf and Stefanie:
a narrative of Count Samuel Teleki's exploring & hunting expedition
in Eastern Equatorial Africa in 1887 & 1888. London
: Longmans, Green, 1894.
DT361
.E94
Krapf, J.L. / Travels, researches, and missionary labors,
during an eighteen years' residence in Eastern Africa. Together
with journeys to Jagga, Usambara, Ukambani, Shoa, Abessinia and
Khartum; and a coasting voyage from Mombaz to Cape Delgado.
London : Trübner and co., 1860.
DT365
.E60
Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry / The rise of our East
African empire; early efforts in Nyasaland and Uganda.
Edinburgh : W. Blackwood and Sons, 1893.
DT423
E93 (v. 1-2)
Mcleod, Lyons / Travels in Eastern Africa; with the narrative
of a residence in Mozambique. London : Hurst and
Blackett, 1860.
DT365
.E601 (v. 1-2)
New, Charles / Life, wanderings, and labours in Eastern Africa.
With an account of the first successful ascent of the equatorial
snow mountian, Kilima Njaro, and remarks upon East African slavery.
London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1873.
DT425
.E73
Peters, Karl (see also, Mozambique.) / New light on dark Africa:
being the narrative of the German Emin Pasha expedition, its journeyings
and adventures among the native tribes of eastern equatorial Africa,
the Gallas, Massais, Wasukuma, etc., etc., on the Lake Baringo and
the Victoria Nyanza. Translated from the German by H.
W. Dulcken, PH. D. London : Melbourne, Ward, Lock,
and Co., 1891.
DT361
.E91
(Original German edition: DT361
.E912)
Sheldon, Mary French / Sultan to sultan. Adventures among
the Masai and other tribes of East Africa. London :
Saxon, 1892.
DT361
.S54 1892a
Smith, Arthur Donaldson / Through unknown African countries;
the first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu. London
: E. Arnold, 1897.
DT361
.E96
Speke, John Hanning / Journal of the discovery of the source
of the Nile.
New York : Harper, 1864.
DT117
.F06
Thomson, Joseph / Through Masai land : a journey of exploration
among the snowclad volcanic mountains and strange tribes of eastern
equatorial Africa ; being the narrative of the Royal Geographical
Society's expedition to Mount Kenia and lake Victoria Nyanza, 1883-1884.
Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1885.
DT361
E95
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North Africa
Baratier, Albert / À travers l'Afrique.
Paris : A. Fayard, 1910.
DT527
.F12
Barth, Heinrich / Travels and discoveries in North and Central
Africa: being a journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices
of H.B.M.'s government, in the years 1849-1855. New York
: Appleton, 1857.
DT351
.E57 (v. 1-5)
Bullard, Arthur / T he Barbary coast; sketches of French north
Africa. New York : The Macmillan Co., 1913.
DT190
F131
Davis, Nathan / Ruined cities within Numidian and Carthaginian
territories.
London : J. Murray, 1862.
DT191
.E62
Denham, Dixon / Narrative of travels and discoveries
in northern and central Africa in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824/
by Major Denham ... Captain Clapperton, and the late Doctor Oudney
; extending across the great desert to the tenth degree of northern
latitude, and from Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the capital of
the Felatah empire. London : J.
Murray, 1828.
DT351
E28 (v. 1-2)
Dumont, Pierre Joseph / Narrative of thirty-four years' slavery
and travels in Africa. London : Sir. R. Phillips,
1819.
HT1345
E19
Ebury, Robert Grosvenor / Extracts from the journal of Lord
R. Grosvenor : being an account of his visit to the Barbary regencies
in the spring of 1830.
Chester : G. Harding, 1830.
DT189
E301
Field, Henry M. / The Barbary coast. New York :
C. Scribner's sons, 1893.
DT189
E93
Fraser, John Foster / The land of veiled women, some wanderings
in Algeria, Tunisia & Morocco. London : Cassell
and co., ltd., 1911.
DT190
.F7
Gérard, Jules / L'Afrique du Nord; description, histoire,
armée, populations, administration et colonisation, chasses,
le Maroc. Paris : E. Dentu, 1860.
DT164
E60
Grant, Cyril Fletcher / 'Twixt sand and sea; sketches and studies
in North Africa. London : S. Low, Marston &
Co., 1911.
DT162
F11
African shores of the Mediterranean. New York :
Mcbride, Nast, 1912.
DT165
.F121
Johnston, Harry (See also, Liberia,
Tanzania, Uganda,
Central Africa)
The History of a Slave. London : Paul, 1889.
HT1381
E89
Loyson, Emilie Jane Butterfield Meriman / To Jerusalem through
the lands of Islam, among Jews, Christians, and Moslems.
Chicago : The Open Court publishing co., 1905.
DS49
.L92
Pananti, Filippo / Narrative of a residence in Algiers: comprising
a geographical and historical account of the regency; biographical
sketches of the dey and his ministers; anecdotes of the late war;
observations on the relations of the Barbary States with the Christian
powers. London : H. Colburn, 1818.
DT189
E18
Pellow, Thomas / The adventures of Thomas Pellow, of Penryn,
mariner, three and twenty years in captivity among the Moors.
London : T.F. Unwin, 1890.
DT308
E90
Rae, Edward / The country of the Moors; a journey from Tripoli
in Barbary to the city of Kairwân. London :
J. Murray, 1877.
DT189
E77
Riley, James / Loss of the American brig Commerce, wrecked
on the western coast of Africa, in the month of August, 1815, with
an account of Tombuctoo, and of the hitherto undiscovered great
city of Wassanah. London : J. Murray,
1817.
DT189
E17
Schoenfeld, Emil Christian Dagobert / Aus den staaten der Barbaresken.
Berlin : D. Reimer, 1902.
DT190
F02
Shaw, Thomas / Travels, or observations relating to several
parts of Barbary and the Levant. London : A. Millar
and W. Sandby, 1757.
DT188
.D57 (Special Collections)
Terry, Alice / Amongst the Moors, Tunisians, Maltese, and Syracusans.
London : C. Dickens and Evans, 1890.
DT309
E90
Vischer, Hans / Across the Sahara from Tripoli to Bornu. London : E. Arnold, 1910. DT333 F10
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Southern Africa
Baines, Thomas. (See also Zimbabwe)
Explorations in South-west Africa. Being an account of a journey
in the years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch bay, on the western coast,
to lake Ngami and the Victoria falls. London :
Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864.
DT731
.B16
Baines, Thomas / The gold regions of south eastern Africa.
London : E. Stanford, 1877.
DT745
.E77
Foà, Edouard / Du Cap au Lac Nyassa. Paris :
Plon, 1897.
DT731
.E97
Foà, Edouard / Résultats scientifiques
des voyages en Afrique.
Paris : Imprimerie nationale, 1908.
QH194
.F08
Primary sources on political violence in Southern Africa.
London : Research Associates, 1988- .
DT
1159 P75
Theal, George McCall / Records of South-Eastern Africa collected
in various libraries and archive departments in Europe.
Cape Town : C. Struik, 1964. (Reprints collection published
by Government of the Cape Colony, 1898-1903.)
DT731
.E98 (v. 1-9)
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West Africa
Butscher, Leopold / Account of the Mandingoes, Susoos, &
Other Nations, c. 1815. Leipzig : University of Leipzig
Institut fur Afrikanistik, 2000. University of Leipzig
Papers on Africa History and Culture Series , no. 6, 2000.
DT543.45
.M34 B88 2000
Bovill, E.W. / Missions to the Niger. Cambridge
: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press,
1964.
DT360
F64 (v. 1-4)
Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History. Cambridge
: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
DT 476
C67
Duncan, John / Travels in Western Africa in 1845 & 1846
: comprising a journey from Whydah through the Kingdom of Dahomey
to Adofoodia in the interior.
New York : Johnson Reprint Co., 1967.
DT541.2
E47
McLachlan, Peter / Travels into the Baga and Soosoo Countries
in 1821.
Leipzig : University of Leipzig, Institut fur Afrikanistik,
1999. University of Leipzig Papers on Africa History and
Culture Series no. 2 1999.
DT
543.27 .M35 1999