From the Cape to Cairo : the first traverse of Africa from south to north

Author/Creator:

Grogan, Ewart Scott, 1874-1967

Publication/Creation:

London : Hurst and Blackett, 1900

Format:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

From the Cape to Cairo : the first traverse of Africa from south to north / by Ewart S. Grogan and Arthur H. Sharp ; illustrated by A.D. McCormick

Series Titles:

Nineteenth century collections online
Nineteenth century collections online (NCCO). [Europe and Africa: commerce, Christianity, civilization, and conquest]
Nineteenth century collections online.

Related Names

Additional Author/Creators:

Sharp, Arthur H. (Arthur Henry)
McCormick, A. D. (Arthur David), 1860-1943
Weller, F. S.
Edward Stanford Ltd
Hurst & Blackett
Richard Clay and Sons

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Electronic books

Subjects:

Grogan, Ewart Scott,1874-1967--Travel--Africa
Sharp, Arthur H.(Arthur Henry)--Travel--Africa
Africa--Description and travel
Africa--Discovery and exploration

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

The Cape to Beira and the Sabi -- The Pungwe Flats -- The Pungwe and Gorongoza's Plain: second expedition -- The Zambesi and Shiré Rivers -- Chiperoni -- British Central Africa and Lake Nyassa -- Karonga to Kituta across the Tanganyika Plateau -- The Chambesi -- Tanganyika -- The Rusisi Valley -- Lake Kivu -- The volcanoes -- Mushari and its cannibals -- The Rutchuru Valley and the Albert Edward Lake -- Katwe to Toro -- Toro to Mombasa / by A. H. Sharp -- Toro to Mboga -- Semliki Valley and Kavalli's country -- Albert Lake and Upper Nile to Wadelai -- Wadelai to Kero -- Kero to Abu-kuka and back to Bohr -- In Dinka-land -- In Nuerland -- The Sobat to Cairo -- The trans-continental telegraph and railway -- The swamps of the Upper Nile, and their effect on the water-supply of Egypt -- Big game and its pursuit -- Native questions.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 377 p., [1] leaf of plates) : ill., maps (some fold.), port

General Note:

"Richard Clay & Sons, Limited"--T.p. verso.
Includes introductory letter from Cecil Rhodes.
"Sketch map of Central Africa from Lake Tanganyika to the Victoria Nile by Ewart S. Grogan" signed: Stanford's Geogl. Estabt. London.
"Sketch map of Central Africa between the region of Lake Tanganyika and Albert Edward Nyanza illustrating the journey of Ewart S. Grogan" signed: F.S. Weller F.R.G.S.
Reproduction of the original from the Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg.

Local Note:

Available to current Emory faculty, students and staff.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936617037502486

OCLC Number:

655048592