Format:
Book
Author(s):
Forbath, Peter
Keyword(s):
Congo River Valley -- Discovery and exploration.
Congo River Valley
Discovery and exploration
Year:
1977
Pages:
xii, 404 p.
Publisher:
Harper & Row
Publisher location:
New York
Accession number:
2966214
Label:
Box 88
Notes:
ill. ; 25 cm.
pt. 1. The voyages: The river that swallows all rivers ; The quest for Prester John ; A hero in Barbary ; On the ocean of darkness ; The perfect prince -- pt. 2. The discovery: The stone pillars ; Kingdonm of Kongo ; The forest Othello ; Slavers, cannibals, and a saint -- pt. 3. The explorations: The way to Timbuktoo ; The Tuckey expedition ; Dr. Livingstone and the Nile ; The sacred oracles ; Stanley and Livingstone ; The last journey ; The extraordinary enterprise ; Down the Lualaba to the sea -- pt. 4. The exploitation: Europe and the Congo ; Bula Matari ; The personal kingdom of Leopold II -- Epilogue.
Includes index./ Bibliography: p. [395]-397.
Peter Forbath.
Book
Language:
English
Call number:
LC: DT639; Dewey: 916.75/1/04
ISBN:
ISBN: 0061224901; 9780061224904 LCCN: 77-3749
Edition:
1st
Research notes:
Review copy - uncorrected proof
Autograph initials (Mordecai Richler)
Abstract:
Discusses the exploration and exploitation of the Congo by European explorers and adventurers from the fifteenth century to the twentieth.