Databases for finding reviews, articles & books

American Periodicals Series APS (1741-1900, full text)

New York Times Historical (1851-2001)

 (the above can be searched simultaneously)

The Times of London (1785-1985)

JSTOR

WorldCat

 

 

Some Helpful Reference Books

DT352.8 .P63 1992 Political Leaders of Contemporary Africa South of the Sahara

PR9340 .C65 2000The Companion to African Literature

CT1920 .A39 1999African Biography

DT18 .B76 1994 An African Biographical Dictionary

 

Web Sites


USC- Special Collections

 

David Rumsey Map Collection

 

Travel at the Turn of the 20th Century [1875-1908]

 

Hakluyt Society, publisher

 

The Journal of African Travel-Writing

 

Women of Discovery, MP3 interview with author and comments about Kinglsey

 

The A-Z of African Studies

 

The BBC Story of Africa

 

World History -- Travel Narratives


Travel Literature Collection

Africa

 

19th century

General Collection

 DT731 .L732 1963 African Journal, 1853-1856, David Livingstone, 1963

 DT351 .H37 The Africa That Never Was; four centuries of British writing   about Africa, Dorothy Hammond and Alta Jablow, 1970

 DT4.5 .A37 1987  Africa then: photographs, 1840-1918, 1987

 DT356 .B78 1968      Adventures and missionary labors in several countries  in the interior of Africa, from 1849 to 1856, T.J. Bowen, 1968

 DT351 .S786 1913  How I found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveries in Central Africa, including an account of four months’ residence with Dr. Livingstone, Henry M. Stanley, 1913

 DT356 .C57 2005 Hugh Clapperton into the interior of Africa: record of the second expedition, 1825-1827, Hugh Clapperton, 2005

 DT753 .B92  Impressions of South Africa, James Bryce, 1900

 DT117 .S74 1906  Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile, John Hanning Speke, 1906

 DT731 .L747 1954  Livingstone’s travels, David Livingstone, 1954

 DT356 .L25 1967  Records of Captain Clapperton’s last expedition to Africa, by Richard Lander, his faithful attendant and the only surviving member of the expedition; with the subsequent adventures of the author, Richard Lander, 1967

 DT515.2 .S4 Search for a Place: Black separatism and Africa, 1860, Howard H. Bell, 1969

 DS248.M5 B873 1990  Sir Richard Burton’s travels in Arabia and Africa: four lectures from a Huntington researches in South Africa, David Livingstone, 1861Library script, Richard Francis Burton, 1990

 DT361 .D8 1890     Tropical Africa, Henry Drummond, 1890

 DT471 .K57 1964    West African Studies, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, 1964

 DT435 .B9 1967  Zanzibar; city, island, and coast, Richard Francis Burton, 1967

 

            More General Sources

 

G465 .T74 2001 Travels, explorations, and empires: writings from the era of imperial expansion, 1770-1835 general editors, Tim Fulford and Peter J. Kitson

 

G465 .N525 2003 Nineteenth-century travels, explorations, and empires: writings from the era of imperial consolidation, 1835-1910 general editor, Peter J. Kitson

 

Spec Coll G465 .L565 2003Literature of travel and exploration: an encyclopedia Jennifer Speake, editor

 

 

Special Collections

Spec Coll  DT351 .S79 In Darkest Africa: or, The quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equtoria, Henry M. Stanley, 1890

Spec Coll  DT117 .S74 1864    Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile (with map and portraits), John Hanning Speke, 1864

Spec Coll  DT731 .L742  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 on the west coast; thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the eastern ocean, David Livingstone, 1858

Spec Coll  DT731 .L755 1861  A popular account of missionary travels and

Spec Coll  DT351 .S83 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, Henry M. Stanley, 1878

Spec Coll  DT351 .B273 1859 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, Henrich Barth, 1857-1859