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  • Back in the Stone Age

    The Natives of Central Australia

    by Charles Chewings ...
    A very detailed and intimate description of the life, personal and tribal, of the Central Australian Aboriginals; their characteristics, beliefs and superstitions; their tools and weapons; together with a discussion of the results of their contacts with the whites, their present condition and their probable future. Dr Chewings writes with the authority of personal knowledge gained by long, patient ... Read more

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    by James Sutherland ...
    Originally published 1912. A detailed and exciting record of sixteen years spent hunting African elephants and other big game. During ten of these years the author shot 447 bull elephants - a world record. Many of the earliest hunting books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works ... Read more

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  • The Passing of the Aborigines

    A Lifetime spent among the Natives of Australia

    by Daisy Bates ...
    DAISY BATES: "As the years passed, I was more and more convinced that it was impossibleto leave these people, to be deaf to their appeal for human kindliness,and of the hopelessness of any movement except one of help and comfort tothe individual, and personal example. So savage and so simple, so muchastray and so utterly helpless were they, that somehow they became myresponsibility. All along the ... Read more

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  • Big Game Shooting in South Africa Fifty Years Ago

    by W. Cotton Oswell ...
    A thrilling personal account of a hunting trip on the vast plains of South Africa. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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  • Australia Twice Traversed (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Expeditions Across the Arid Interior: Desert Survival, Geography, and Colonial Exploration in the Australian Outback

    by Ernest Giles, Talia Loxcroft ...
    Australia Twice Traversed is Ernest Giles's expansive account of his expeditions across the arid interior of the continent, especially the journeys of the 1870s through Central and Western Australia. Combining travel narrative, geographical observation, survival chronicle, and imperial adventure prose, the work records deserts, ranges, waterless marches, camel caravans, and encounters with ... Read more

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  • Tropical Africa

    by Henry Drummond ...
    Three distinct Africas are known to the modern world—North Africa, where men go for health; South Africa, where they go for money; and Central Africa, where they go for adventure. The first, the old Africa of Augustine and Carthage, every one knows from history; the geography of the second, the Africa of the Zulu and the diamond, has been taught us by two Universal Educators—War and the Stock ... Read more

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  • A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53

    Enriched edition. Unveiling the Golden Frontier: An Adventurous Account of Australia's 1852-53 Gold Rush

    by Ellen Clacy, Levi Calloway ...
    In "A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53," Ellen Clacy presents a compelling and vivid account of her travels to the Australian goldfields during the height of the gold rush. Written in an accessible yet sophisticated narrative style, Clacy's work interweaves personal anecdotes with meticulous observations, creating a rich tapestry of life in a tumultuous period of ... Read more

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  • Life with the Esquimaux 1860-1862

    by A H Guernsey ...
    An early exploration briefly describes life with the Inuit peoples during the mid nineteenth century. Illustrated. ... Read more

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  • Spinifex And Sand : Five Years' Pioneering And Exploration In Western Australia

    by David Wynford Carnegie ...
    Unfolding in Western Australia this work is a true depiction of the days spent by Carnegie in that area. The adventures narrated in this work are unique and idiosyncratic as the experiences of the author are captured in their true essence. This amazing work monopolizes the reader's attention from the outset. Informative and enthralling! ... Read more

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  • Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1

    by T. L. Mitchell ...
    "Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1" by T. L. Mitchell is a detailed account of the author's explorations in the Australian interior during the 19th century. Mitchell, an accomplished surveyor and explorer, meticulously documents his journeys through uncharted territories, providing insights into the geography, flora, and fauna of the region. His observations not ... Read more

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  • A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864

    by David Livingstone ...
    I beg leave to dedicate this Volume to your Lordship, as a tribute justly due to the great Statesman who has ever had at heart the amelioration of the African race; and as a token of admiration of the beneficial effects of that policy which he has so long laboured to establish on the West Coast of Africa; and which, in improving that region, has most forcibly shown the need of some similar system ... Read more

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  • The Mammoth Book of Travel in Dangerous Places: West Africa

    by John Keay ...
    Series Book 354 - Mammoth Books
    Alone in Africa - Mungo ParkPark's 1795-7 odyssey in search of the Niger first awakened the world to the feasibility of a white man penetrating sub-Saharan Africa. But unlike his illustrious successors, this quiet tenant farmer's son from the Scottish Borders travelled alone; relieved of his meager possessions, he was soon wholly dependant on local hospitality. In what he called "a plain ... Read more

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