The Diary Of A J Mounteney Jephson
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Author : Dorothy Middleton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
The Diary Of A J Mounteney Jephson written by Dorothy Middleton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with History categories.
This is a first-hand account of the expedition led by H. M. Stanley in 1887-89 to the relief of Emin Pasha, Governor of Equatoria. A. J. Mounteney Jephson, a typical late Victorian traveller, took part in Stanley’s last expedition in Africa. His recently-discovered diary describes the voyage out of the mouth of the Congo; the journey up the Congo and across the Ituri forests to Lake Albert; the meeting with Emin Pasha; the mutiny of Emin’s troops and their imprisonment of Emin and Jephson; and the journey back to the East coast. Though it fell short of its political and commercial aims, the expedition was important geographically as it solved the last mystery of African topography - the position and nature of the sources of the Nile.
The Diary Of A J Mounteney Jephson
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Author : Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Diary Of A J Mounteney Jephson written by Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Emin Pasha Relief Expedition categories.
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Author : Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
The Diary Of A J Mounteney Jephson written by Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with HISTORY categories.
Land Of Tears
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Author : Robert Harms
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-12-03
Land Of Tears written by Robert Harms and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-03 with History categories.
A prizewinning historian's epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s the rainforest of the Congo River basin was one of the most brutally exploited places on earth. In Land of Tears, historian Robert Harms reconstructs the chaotic process by which this happened. Beginning in the 1870s, traders, explorers, and empire builders from Arabia, Europe, and America moved rapidly into the region, where they pioneered a deadly trade in ivory and rubber for Western markets and in enslaved labor for the Indian Ocean rim. Imperial conquest followed close behind. Ranging from remote African villages to European diplomatic meetings to Connecticut piano-key factories, Land of Tears reveals how equatorial Africa became fully, fatefully, and tragically enmeshed within our global world.
The Dark Continent
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Author : Frits Andersen
language : en
Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Release Date : 2015-12-31
The Dark Continent written by Frits Andersen and has been published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
Africa: a forgotten continent that evades all attempts at control and transcends reason. Or does it? This book describes Europe's image of Africa and relates how the conception of the Dark Continent has been fabricated in European culture--with the Congo as an analytical focal point. It also demonstrates that the myth was more than a creation of colonial propaganda; the Congo reform movement--the first international human rights movement--spread horror stories that still have repercussions today. The book cross-examines a number of witness testimonies, reports and novels, from Stanley's travelogues and Conrad's Heart of Darkness to Herge's Tintin and Burroughs' Tarzan, as well as recent Danish and international Congo literature. The Dark Continent? proposes that the West's attitudes to Africa regarding free trade, emergency aid and intervention are founded on the literary historical assumptions of stories and narrative forms that have evolved since 1870.
Literature Of Travel And Exploration
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Author : Jennifer Speake
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-05-12
Literature Of Travel And Exploration written by Jennifer Speake and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-12 with Business & Economics categories.
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
The Naturalist And His Beautiful Islands
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Author : David Russell Lawrence
language : en
Publisher: ANU Press
Release Date : 2014-10-28
The Naturalist And His Beautiful Islands written by David Russell Lawrence and has been published by ANU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-28 with Nature categories.
‘I know no place where firm and paternal government would sooner produce beneficial results then in the Solomons … Here is an object worthy indeed the devotion of one’s life’. Charles Morris Woodford devoted his working life to pursuing this dream, becoming the first British Resident Commissioner in 1897 and remaining in office until 1915, establishing the colonial state almost singlehandedly. His career in the Pacific extended beyond the Solomon Islands. He worked briefly for the Western Pacific High Commission in Fiji, was a temporary consul in Samoa, and travelled as a Government Agent on a small labour vessel returning indentured workers to the Gilbert Islands. As an independent naturalist he made three successful expeditions to the islands, and even climbed Mt Popomanaseu, the highest mountain in Guadalcanal. However, his natural history collection of over 20,000 specimens, held by the British Museum of Natural History, has not been comprehensively examined. The British Solomon Islands Protectorate was established in order to control the Pacific Labour Trade and to counter possible expansion by French and German colonialists. It remaining an impoverished, largely neglected protectorate in the Western Pacific whose economic importance was large-scale copra production, with its copra considered the second-worst in the world. This book is a study of Woodford, the man, and what drove his desire to establish a colonial protectorate in the Solomon Islands. In doing so, it also addresses ongoing issues: not so much why the independent state broke down, but how imperfectly it was put together in the first place.
Ying Yai Sheng Lan
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Author : Ma-Huan
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1970-12-02
Ying Yai Sheng Lan written by Ma-Huan and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970-12-02 with History categories.
King Leopold S Ghost
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Author : Adam Hochschild
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2019-05-02
King Leopold S Ghost written by Adam Hochschild and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-02 with History categories.
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver. In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. King Leopold's Ghost is the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity. 'All the tension and drama that one would expect in a good novel' - Robert Harris, author of Fatherland
Nineteenth Century Travels Explorations And Empires Part Ii Vol 7
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Author : Peter J Kitson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-16
Nineteenth Century Travels Explorations And Empires Part Ii Vol 7 written by Peter J Kitson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-16 with History categories.
A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.