Maps and Power in Modern African History: 19th Century Africa

19th Century Africa

Alexander, James Edward. Narrative of a voyage of observation among the colonies of Western Africa in the flagship Thalia [Microform]: and a campaign in Kaffir land, on the staff of the commander in chief in 1835. 2 vols. London: H. Colburn, 1837. (Microfilm, 1988)

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. 3 vols. London : F. Cass, 1965.
--See also: E-text

Blunt, Alison. Travel, gender, and imperialism : Mary Kingsley and West Africa. New York : Guilford Press, 1994.

Bovill, E.W. The Niger explored. London: Oxford University Press, 1968.

Burton, Richard Francis. First footsteps in East Africa, or, An exploration of Hārar. London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1856.

Charpy, Jacques. La fondation de Dakar (1845 - 1857 - 1869). Collections des documents inédits pour servir à l'histoire de l'Afrique Occidentale Française. Paris: Larose, 1958.

Clapperton, Hugh. Journal of a second expedition into the interior of Africa, from the Bight of Benin to Soccatoo; to which is added the journal of Richard Lander from Kano to the sea coast ... Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1829.
--See also: 2005 reprint edition

David Livingstone and the Victorian encounter with Africa. London: National Portrait Gallery, c1996. ("Published for the exhibition, David Livingstone and the Victorian Encounter with Africa, held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from 22 March to 7 July 1996, and at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh ... from 26 July to 6 October 1996")

Denham, Dixon, Captain Clapperton, and the late Dr. Oudney. Narrative of travels and discoveries in Northern and Central Africa : in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824, 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. 2 vols. London : Darf Publishers, 1985.
--See also: E-text

Du Chaillu, Paul Belloni. A journey to Ashango-land : and further penetration into equatorial Africa. (New York, D. Appleton, 1867) New York: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1971.

Forbath, Peter. The river Congo : the discovery, exploration and exploitation of the world's most dramatic rivers. New York: Harper & Row, c1977.

Isenberg, Charles William. The journals of C. W. Isenberg and J. L. Krapf detailing their proceedings in the kingdom of Shoa and journeys in other parts of Abyssinia in the years 1839, 1840, 1841 and 1842 : to which is prefixed A geographical memoir of Abyssinia and South Eastern-Africa by James M'Queen, grounded on the missionaries' journals and the expedition of the Pacha of Egypt up the Nile, with two maps constructed by James M'Queen. 1st ed., new impression. Cass library of African studies. Travels and narratives ; no. 34 (London, Cass, 1968.)

Laird, MacGregor and R.A.K. Oldfield. Narrative of an expedition into the interior of Africa by the River Niger in the steam-vessels Quorra and Alburkah in 1832, 1833 and 1834. 2 vols. London: F. Cass, 1971.

Lander, Richard Lemon. The Niger journal of Richard and John Lander. Ed. and abridged, with an introduction by Robin Hallett. New York: Praeger, 1965.

Livingstone, David. David Livingstone's Shire journal 1861-1864. Ed. by Gary W. Clendennen. Aberdeen : Scottish Cultural Press, 1992.

Livingstone, David. Missionary travels and researches in South Africa : including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda... to the eastern ocean. London: John Murray, 1857.

Laporte, Jean. Première descente du Nil, de l'Équateur a la Méditerranée. Monaco : Editions du Rocher, c1981.

Morgan, Ted (Sanche de Gramont) The strong brown god : the story of the Niger River. London: Hart Davis, MacGibbon, 1975.

Person, Yves. Cartes historiques de l'Afrique manding, fin du 19e siècle. (2 page preliminary, with 44 leaves of plates.) Paris: Centre de recherches africaines, 1990.

Plates and maps of the travels of Ali Bey : in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, and Turkey, between the years 1803 and 1805. Philadelphia : Printed for John Conrad by James Maxwell, 1816.

Rae, Edward. The country of the Moors : a journey from Tripoli in Barbary to the city of Kairwan. London : Darf Publishers, 1985. --See also: 2010 reprint

Speke, John Hanning. Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile. New York: Harper & Bros., 1864.

Spilsbury, F.B. Account of a voyage to the western coast of Africa ; performed by His Majesty's sloop Favourite, in the year 1805. London: Printed for R. Phillips, 1807.

Stanley, Henry M. Stanley's despatches to the New York herald, 1871-1872, 1874-1877. Ed. by Norman R. Bennett. Boston: Boston University Press, 1970.

Stanley, Henry M. 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. 2 vols. With ten maps and one hundred and fifty woodcuts. New York: Harper & Bros., 1878.
--See also: E-text

Staudinger, Paul. Im Herzen der Haussalander. English. In the heart of the Hausa states. Translated by Johanna Moody. 2 vols. Monographs in international studies. Africa series ; no. 56. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1990.

Stewart, James. From Nyassa to Tanganyika : the journal of James Stewart, CE, in Central Africa, 1876-1879. Edited and with an introduction by Jack Thompson. Blantyre, Malawi : Central Africana, 1989.

Tuckey, James Hingston. Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816, under the direction of J.K. Tuckey : to which is added the journal of Professor Smith and some general observations on the country and its inhabitants. New-York : W.B. Wiley, 1818.

Van Orman, Richard A. The explorers : nineteenth century expeditions in Africa and the American West. 1st ed. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1984.

Wilks, Ivor. Forests of gold : essays on the Akan and the Kingdom of Assante. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1993.

Women's voices on Africa and Africans : a century of travel writings. Edited by Patricia W. Romero. Princeton, [N. J.] : M. Wiener Pub., 1992.
--See also: 2nd copy

Youngs, Tim. Travellers in Africa : British travelogues, 1850-1900. Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press: Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1994.

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