The German scholar-explorer set out from Tripoli in 1850 with a British expedition and spent five years crossing the Sahara and travelling through the Sudanic kingdoms. This one-volume edition follows him past Roman ruins and rock sculptures in the desert to Murzuk, Kano, Kukawa in Bornu and on to Timbuktu, noting markets, crafts, ironwork, languages and the politics of every state he passed through.
Among the most learned and humane records of nineteenth-century African exploration. Download the free EPUB.