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Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Africa

by Frank G. CARPENTER (1855 - 1924)

In Uganda

Fascinating book for all ages telling of travels through Africa over 100 years ago. Covering the continent by steamer and train and other more primitive means of transport, the reader will enjoy learning of African life long before knowledge of this continent was available to most people throughout the world. Summary by BettyB.Note: This text was published more than 100 years ago in 1905.The listener should be aware that the descriptions of the native peoples, their dress and home life reflected the perceptions and thinking of the early 20th century which some listeners may find offensive.

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Listen next episodes of Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Africa:
A Visit to an Ostrich Farm , About Kuka and Lake Tchad , Angola or Portugese West Africa , British South Africa , Cape Colony , Elephants and Ivory , Farming in South Africa , German Southwest Africa , In the Great African Forest - Pygmies , In the Land of the Hausas , In the Sudan , Kimberley and the Diamond Mines , Lagos - A Visit to a West African Factory , Life upon the Kongo , Natal, the Garden of South Africa , Rhodesia - the Zambesi - The Niagara of Africa , Senegambia, Sierra Leone aand Liberia - The Kroos , The Gold Mines of South Africa - Johannesburg , The Home of the Gorilla - Kamerun and French Kongo , The Home of the Negro , The Kongo and Its Basin , The Spanish Possessions , The Strange Animals of Africa , The Upper Niger - Timbuktu and Jenne , The Yorubans - Southern Nigeria , Through German East Africa to the Indian Ocean , Trade and Commerce of the Kongo , With the Portugese in Africa , Zanzibar