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Title

Savage Africa : being the narrative of a tour in Equatorial, South-Western, and North-Western Africa : with notes on the habits of the gorilla : on the existence of unicorns and tailed men : on the slave trade : on the origin, character, and capabilities of the negro and on the future civilization of Western Africa / By W. Winwood Reade, fellow of the geographical and anthropological societies of London, and corresponding member of the Geographical Society of Paris ; with illustrations and a map.

Author

Reade, William Winwood, 1838-1875.

Publication

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1864.

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Additional Authors

Harper & Brothers, publisher.

Description

xi, [2], 14-452 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : ill., map.; 23 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Black people
• Black people > Africa
• Africa, Central > Description and travel
• Africa, West > Description and travel
• Gorilla

Indexed In (note)

• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

ch. 1. A lovely charnel-house -- ch. 2. A perished people -- ch. 3. A landmark of history -- ch. 4. The paradise of the blacks -- ch. 5. The republic of colored gentlemen -- ch. 6. The titans of the coast -- ch. 7. The city of gold -- ch. 8. Land of the Amazons -- ch. 9. The king of oils -- ch. 10. Coast society -- ch. 11. The tribe of commercial travelers -- ch. 12. The land of hunger -- ch. 13. The falls of the Ncomo -- ch. 14. The philosophy of cannibalism -- ch. 15. Drugged elephants -- ch. 16. The Camma country -- ch. 17. The gorilla dance -- ch. 18. The great ape of equatorial Africa -- ch. 19. Detained -- ch. 20. The equatorial savage -- ch. 21 Volcanic flower-gardens -- ch. 22. At sea -- ch. 23. Black ivory -- ch. 24. The metropolis of Africa -- ch. 25. By ox and hammock -- ch. 26. Fever and flight -- ch. 27. The Congo empire -- ch. 28. The islands of the green cape -- ch. 29. Up the Casemanche -- ch. 30. Up the Gambia -- ch. 31. The three doctors of Macarthy's Island -- ch. 32. Up the Senegal -- ch. 33. Monsters and fabulous animals -- ch. 34. Features of Africa -- ch. 35. Malaria -- ch. 36. The Negro -- ch. 37. The redemption of Africa.

Call Number

Sc Rare 916.6-R (Reade, W. W. Savage Africa)

OCLC

• 27764072
• NYPGR27764072-B

Author

Reade, William Winwood, 1838-1875.

Title

Savage Africa : being the narrative of a tour in Equatorial, South-Western, and North-Western Africa : with notes on the habits of the gorilla : on the existence of unicorns and tailed men : on the slave trade : on the origin, character, and capabilities of the negro and on the future civilization of Western Africa / By W. Winwood Reade, fellow of the geographical and anthropological societies of London, and corresponding member of the Geographical Society of Paris ; with illustrations and a map.

Imprint

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1864.

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 8684

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 916.6-R (accession no. B429255) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare 916.6-R has [6] p. of publishers' advertisements at end. NN

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Added Author

Harper & Brothers, publisher.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 916.6-R (Reade, W. W. Savage Africa)