In 1822 Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton and Walter Oudney crossed the Sahara from Tripoli and became the first Europeans known to have reached Lake Chad. Denham recounts life at Kouka in Bornu, a disastrous raiding expedition to Mandara, the rainy season and Clapperton’s journey to Sokoto, with natural-history appendices.
A landmark of African exploration, packed with first-hand detail of the Sahel kingdoms of the 1820s. Download the free EPUB.