Afrique -- Romans, nouvelles, etc

Impressions of Africa

by Polizzotti, Mark, Roussel, Raymond

fromFrench literature series (Normal, Ill.)

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While shipwrecked in a mythical African land, passengers stage a gala and entertain the chieftain Talou, their captor, with bizarre performances, including a zither-playing worm, a marksman who can peel an egg at fifty yards, and others.

Impressions of Africa

by Polizzotti, Mark, Roussel, Raymond

fromFrench literature series (Normal, Ill.)

0 Type: Book

While shipwrecked in a mythical African land, passengers stage a gala and entertain the chieftain Talou, their captor, with bizarre performances, including a zither-playing worm, a marksman who can peel an egg at fifty yards, and others.

Impressions of Africa

by Polizzotti, Mark, Roussel, Raymond

fromFrench literature series (Normal, Ill.)

0 Type: Book

While shipwrecked in a mythical African land, passengers stage a gala and entertain the chieftain Talou, their captor, with bizarre performances, including a zither-playing worm, a marksman who can peel an egg at fifty yards, and others.

King Solomon's mines

by Haggard, H. Rider, (Henry Rider), Butts, Dennis

fromOxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

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A thrilling search for a missing man amidst the scorching deserts and perilous mountains of Africa. In 1885, H. Rider Haggard's publisher considered King Solomon's Mines 'the most amazing book ever written.'

King Solomon's mines

by Haggard, H. Rider, (Henry Rider), Monsman, Gerald Cornelius

fromBroadview literary texts

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"When first published, King Solomon's Mines (1885) was an enormous popular success. The narrative follows the explorations of Allan Quatermain, a fortune hunter who travels to Africa in search of ancient treasures and a lost fellow explorer. Written as an adventure story, the no…

First published in 1886-87, H. Rider Haggard's imperial romance follows its English heroes from the quiet rooms of Cambridge to the uncharted interior of Africa in search of a legendary lost city with an ageless white queen. The two men find their way to the ancient city of Kôr,…

She: a history of adventure

by Haggard, H. Rider, (Henry Rider), Stauffer, Andrew M.

fromBroadview editions

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First published in 1886-87, H. Rider Haggard's imperial romance follows its English heroes from the quiet rooms of Cambridge to the uncharted interior of Africa in search of a legendary lost city with an ageless white queen. The two men find their way to the ancient city of Kôr,…

Five weeks in a balloon: a journey of discovery by three Englishmen in Afr…

by Verne, Jules

fromWesleyan early classics of science fiction series

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"Initially published in 1863, Five Weeks in a Balloon was the first novel in what would become Jules Verne's Extraordinay Voyages series. It tells the tale of a 4,000-mile balloon trip over the mysterious continent of Africa, a trip that wouldn't actually take place until well i…

Five weeks in a balloon: a journey of discovery by three Englishmen in Afr…

by Verne, Jules

fromWesleyan early classics of science fiction series

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First complete English translation of Verne's debut novel from 1863.