Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Africa

Frank G. Carpenter (1855 - 1924)

Fascinating book for all ages telling of travels through Africa over 100 years ago. Covering the continent by steamer and train and other more primitive means of transport, the reader will enjoy learning of African life long before knowledge of this continent was available to most people throughout the world. Summary by BettyB.

Note: This text was published more than 100 years ago in 1905.The listener should be aware that the descriptions of the native peoples, their dress and home life reflected the perceptions and thinking of the early 20th century which some listeners may find offensive.

Genre(s): Travel & Geography

Language: English

Group: Carpenter's Geographical Readers

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface BettyB
00:03:27
Play 01 From New York to Gibraltar BettyB
00:08:26
Play 02 Morocco BettyB
00:09:01
Play 03 Through Interior Morocco BettyB
00:09:01
Play 04 In Fez, the Capital of Morocco BettyB
00:08:58
Play 05 Algeria, General View BettyB
00:10:24
Play 06 In Algiers BettyB
00:10:09
Play 07 The City of Tunis BettyB
00:10:55
Play 08 The Desert of Sahara BettyB
00:06:27
Play 09 In the Oasis off Biskra BettyB
00:08:33
Play 10 A Caravan Ride BettyB
00:12:56
Play 11 Tripoli and its Oases BettyB
00:10:02
Play 12 The Land of the Nile BettyB
00:06:07
Play 13 Egypt- A Trip through the Country BettyB
00:07:46
Play 14 Alexandria and Cairo BettyB
00:14:28
Play 15 Ancient Egypt - The Pyramids and the Sphinx BettyB
00:08:08
Play 16 A Trip through the Suez Canal BettyB
00:06:16
Play 17 Nubia BettyB
00:10:28
Play 18 The Roof of Africa - Abyssinia BettyB
00:12:40
Play 19 Across East Africa by Rail BettyB
00:08:06
Play 20 About Lake Victoria BettyB
00:09:04
Play 21 In Uganda BettyB
00:07:12
Play 22 Elephants and Ivory BettyB
00:09:30
Play 23 The Strange Animals of Africa BettyB
00:07:53
Play 24 In the Sudan BettyB
00:05:33
Play 25 About Kuka and Lake Tchad BettyB
00:10:40
Play 26 In the Land of the Hausas BettyB
00:10:23
Play 27 The Upper Niger - Timbuktu and Jenne BettyB
00:13:04
Play 28 The Spanish Possessions BettyB
00:02:09
Play 29 The Home of the Negro BettyB
00:10:34
Play 30 Senegambia, Sierra Leone aand Liberia - The Kroos BettyB
00:10:53
Play 31 Lagos - A Visit to a West African Factory BettyB
00:06:19
Play 32 The Yorubans - Southern Nigeria BettyB
00:08:37
Play 33 The Home of the Gorilla - Kamerun and French Kongo BettyB
00:05:54
Play 34 The Kongo and Its Basin BettyB
00:09:54
Play 35 Life upon the Kongo BettyB
00:14:30
Play 36 Trade and Commerce of the Kongo BettyB
00:08:18
Play 37 In the Great African Forest - Pygmies BettyB
00:08:41
Play 38 Through German East Africa to the Indian Ocean BettyB
00:10:48
Play 39 Zanzibar BettyB
00:05:35
Play 40 With the Portugese in Africa BettyB
00:12:44
Play 41 British South Africa BettyB
00:08:00
Play 42 Rhodesia - the Zambesi - The Niagara of Africa BettyB
00:05:22
Play 43 Farming in South Africa BettyB
00:08:22
Play 44 A Visit to an Ostrich Farm BettyB
00:11:32
Play 45 Kimberley and the Diamond Mines BettyB
00:11:28
Play 46 The Gold Mines of South Africa - Johannesburg BettyB
00:09:39
Play 47 Natal, the Garden of South Africa BettyB
00:08:51
Play 48 Cape Colony BettyB
00:08:44
Play 49 German Southwest Africa BettyB
00:05:44
Play 50 Angola or Portugese West Africa BettyB
00:11:08