The Boy Travellers on the Congo, by Thomas Wallace Knox (1835 - 1896) and Henry M. Stanley
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/60328 (Please do not read the chapter contents list.) (Also, enjoy the pictures, but do not record any of the captions.)Frank and Fred share the sights they explore and the information they learn in Africa. As in other volumes, this fictionalized travelogue provides many fascinating scenes and items of interest to the modern listener, despite being published in 1888. (Summary by Scott Caulkins)
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Genres for the project: Children's Fiction; Children's Fiction/Historical; Travel Fiction; Culture & Heritage Fiction; Fictional Biographies & Memoirs; *Non-fiction/History; *Non-fiction/Travel & Geography
Keywords that describe the book: culture, travel, Hunting, africa, customs, jungle, zanzibar, natal, cannibalism, congo, bishop hannington, dark continent, henry stanley, victoria lake, king mtesa, usukuma, kagehyi, wavuma, king rumanika, arab traders, lake windermere, usui, mirambo, watuta, ujiji, wajiji, lukuga river, small pox, manyema, livinstone, uregga, luama, lualaba, tippu-tib, nyangwe, african weapons, sokos, wenya, ukusu, vinya-nara, mwana ntaba, baswa, rubunga, urangi, ikengo, bolobo, chumbiri, mankoneh, bateke, soudi, gavubu, babwende, boma, wangwana, kabinda, cape of good hope, bula matari, mwanga, egyptian equatorial province, masai land, mombasa coast, mount kilimanjaro, mandara, hopo, du chaillu
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