Paul Du Chaillu, the explorer whose accounts made the gorilla famous in Europe, retells for young readers his years in equatorial West Africa: coastal kings and their palaces, leopards, cobras, buffalo and tornadoes, mangrove swamps and pelicans, fever and hunger, and his encounters with the great apes in the forest.
A thrilling explorer’s narrative for young readers, though its view of African peoples is that of a nineteenth-century European. Download the free EPUB.