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- catalog contributor b4176343.
- catalog coverage "Africa Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "Africa Literary collections.".
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "Exploring Mount Kilimanjaro / Ludwig Von Höhnel -- The primeval forest / Henry M. Stanley -- Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- West African rivers / Mary Kingsley -- The death of the first man-eater / J.H. Patterson -- To Lake Naivasha / Theodore Roosevelt -- Hunting gorillas / Carl Akeley -- The giraffes go to Hamburg / Isak Dinesen -- Father elephant / (from the Pygmies of Gabon) -- The origin of the leopard and hyena / (from the Nandi of East Africa) -- The story of the crow who married a woman / (from the Masai of East Africa) -- Masai proverbs / (from the Masia of East Africa) -- Masai riddles / (from the Masai of East Africa) -- The hare and the elephant / (from the Suk of East Africa) -- Man and turtle / (from the Ki-Mbundu of Angola) -- The origin of death / (from the Zulu of South Africa) -- Part III : 1957-1992 : The age of environmentalism -- In the realm of the mountain gorilla /".
- catalog description "George B. Schaller -- The end of the Pleistocene / Roger Caras -- Uranium / Delia Owens -- The leopard / Cynthia Moss -- Sand rivers / Peter Mattheissen -- Landscapes open and closed, a journey through southern Africa / Barry Lopez -- In the country of grasses / Terry Tempest Williams -- Radiant darkness / John A. Murray.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-314) and index.".
- catalog description "Part I : 1770-1885 : The age of exploration -- Finding the source of the Blue Nile / James Bruce -- The discovery of the Niger River / Mungo Park -- The South African unicorn / John Barrow -- The Eland and the Puff Adder / William J. Burchell -- The death of Hugh Clapperton / Richard Lemon Lander -- The first white man to report on Timbuctoo / René Caillié -- The cataracts of the Nile / John L. Stephens -- Encounter with a lion and discovery of the Victoria Falls / David Livingstone -- Lost in the Sahara Desert / Heinrich Barth -- The discovery of Lake Tanganyika / Richard Francis Burton -- A swarm of beetles / Jon Speke -- A baby gorilla captured alive / Paul B. Du Chaillu -- Hunting elephants / Samuel White Baker -- The Upper Nile / Mark Twain -- An encounter with a slave caravan / J. Frederic Elton -- In the jaws of death / Joseph Thomson -- Part II : 1886-1956 : The age of exploitation --".
- catalog extent "xvii, 318 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0195073770 (acid-free paper) :".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Africa Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "Africa Literary collections.".
- catalog spatial "Africa.".
- catalog subject "960 20".
- catalog subject "DT3 .W6 1993".
- catalog subject "Folk literature, African.".
- catalog subject "Folklore Africa.".
- catalog subject "Natural history Africa.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Exploring Mount Kilimanjaro / Ludwig Von Höhnel -- The primeval forest / Henry M. Stanley -- Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad -- West African rivers / Mary Kingsley -- The death of the first man-eater / J.H. Patterson -- To Lake Naivasha / Theodore Roosevelt -- Hunting gorillas / Carl Akeley -- The giraffes go to Hamburg / Isak Dinesen -- Father elephant / (from the Pygmies of Gabon) -- The origin of the leopard and hyena / (from the Nandi of East Africa) -- The story of the crow who married a woman / (from the Masai of East Africa) -- Masai proverbs / (from the Masia of East Africa) -- Masai riddles / (from the Masai of East Africa) -- The hare and the elephant / (from the Suk of East Africa) -- Man and turtle / (from the Ki-Mbundu of Angola) -- The origin of death / (from the Zulu of South Africa) -- Part III : 1957-1992 : The age of environmentalism -- In the realm of the mountain gorilla /".
- catalog tableOfContents "George B. Schaller -- The end of the Pleistocene / Roger Caras -- Uranium / Delia Owens -- The leopard / Cynthia Moss -- Sand rivers / Peter Mattheissen -- Landscapes open and closed, a journey through southern Africa / Barry Lopez -- In the country of grasses / Terry Tempest Williams -- Radiant darkness / John A. Murray.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I : 1770-1885 : The age of exploration -- Finding the source of the Blue Nile / James Bruce -- The discovery of the Niger River / Mungo Park -- The South African unicorn / John Barrow -- The Eland and the Puff Adder / William J. Burchell -- The death of Hugh Clapperton / Richard Lemon Lander -- The first white man to report on Timbuctoo / René Caillié -- The cataracts of the Nile / John L. Stephens -- Encounter with a lion and discovery of the Victoria Falls / David Livingstone -- Lost in the Sahara Desert / Heinrich Barth -- The discovery of Lake Tanganyika / Richard Francis Burton -- A swarm of beetles / Jon Speke -- A baby gorilla captured alive / Paul B. Du Chaillu -- Hunting elephants / Samuel White Baker -- The Upper Nile / Mark Twain -- An encounter with a slave caravan / J. Frederic Elton -- In the jaws of death / Joseph Thomson -- Part II : 1886-1956 : The age of exploitation --".
- catalog title "Wild Africa : three centuries of nature writing from Africa / edited by John A. Murray.".
- catalog type "Literary collections. fast".
- catalog type "text".