THE SOURCE OF THE NILE: THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA
Written by Richard Burton, Ian Curteis
Published by Folio Society
in 1993
- Categorised in:
- FOLIO SOCIETY
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (FOREIGN)
- AFRICA
- RIVERS
- EXPLORATION
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Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- Author's Preface
- Tables
- CHAPTER I
- We quit Zanzibar Island in dignified style
- CHAPTER II
- Zanzibar and the Mrima explained
- CHAPTER III
- Transit of the Valley of the Kingani and the Mgeta Rivers
- CHAPTER IV
- On the Geography and Ethnology of the First Region
- CHAPTER V
- Halt at Zungomero, and Formation of the Caravan
- CHAPTER VI
- We cross the East African Ghaunts
- CHAPTER VII
- The Geography and Ethnology of the Second region
- CHAPTER VIII
- We succeed in travesing Ugogo
- CHAPTER IX
- The Geography and Ethnology of Ugogo - the third Region
- CHAPTER X
- We enter Unyamwezi, the Far-famed Land of the Moon
- CHAPTER XI
- We conclude the Transit of Unyamwezi
- CHAPTER XII
- The Geography and Ethnology of Unyamwezi - the Fourth Region
- CHAPTER XIII
- At length we sight the Lake Tanganyika, the "Sea of Ujiji"
- CHAPTER XIV
- We explore the Tanganyika Lake
- CHAPTER XV
- The Tanganyika Lake and its Periplus
- CHAPTER XVI
- We return to Unynyembe
- CHAPTER XVII
- The Down march to the Coast
- CHAPTER XVIII
- Village Life in East Africa
- CHAPTER XIX
- The Character and Religion of the East Africans: their Government and Slavery
- Conclusion