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2025-05-19
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A Rip Van Winkle of the Kalahari, and Other Tales of South-West Africa

Frederick Cornell (1867 - 1921)

A collection of stories set in South-West Africa, several of which are set in the desert. (Summary by ShrimpPhish)

Genre(s): Culture & Heritage Fiction, Single Author Collections

Language: English

Keyword(s): fiction (1576), short stories (693), africa (85)

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface Leanne Fortune
 00:06:29
Play 01 Introductory Leanne Fortune
 00:10:36
Play 02 The Blue Diamond Leanne Fortune
 00:15:34
Play 03 Dead Men in the Dunes Leanne Fortune
 00:19:07
Play 04 The Sand-Storm Leanne Fortune
 00:17:59
Play 05 The Pans and the Poison Flowers - Part 1 Leanne Fortune
 00:15:28
Play 06 The Pans and the Poison Flowers - Part 2 Leanne Fortune
 00:15:32
Play 07 I Lose Inyati - Part 1 Leanne Fortune
 00:14:55
Play 08 I Lose Inyati - Part 2 Leanne Fortune
 00:08:38
Play 09 The Crater and the Pleasant Berries Sleep and the Awakening - Part 1 Leanne Fortune
 00:15:39
Play 10 The Crater and the Pleasant Berries Sleep and the Awakening - Part 2 Leanne Fortune
 00:14:06
Play 11 The Country of Craters, the Path of Skulls and the Snake - Part 1 Leanne Fortune
 00:11:42
Play 12 The Country of Craters, the Path of Skulls and the Snake - Part 2 Leanne Fortune
 00:11:14
Play 13 The Cataclysm The Priestess "Look and Forget" Leanne Fortune
 00:19:20
Play 14 Forty Years! The Awakening - Part 1 Leanne Fortune
 00:11:27
Play 15 Forty Years! The Awakening - Part 2 Leanne Fortune
 00:07:42
Play 16 The Salting of the Great North-Eastern Fields, being an episode in the life of Dick Sydney, Prospector - Chapter 1 Leanne Fortune
 00:11:40
Play 17 Dick Sydney - Chapter 2 Leanne Fortune
 00:09:49
Play 18 Dick Sydney - Chapter 3 - Part 1 Leanne Fortune
 00:14:03
Play 19 Dick Sydney - Chapter 3 - Part 2 Leanne Fortune
 00:15:06
Play 20 Dick Sydney - Chapter 4 - Part 1 Leanne Fortune
 00:15:38
Play 21 Dick Sydney - Chapter 4 - Part 2 Leanne Fortune
 00:12:26
Play 22 Dick Sydney - Chapter 5 - Part 1 Leanne Fortune
 00:21:13
Play 23 Dick Sydney - Chapter 5 - Part 2 Leanne Fortune
 00:07:22
Play 24 The Follower - Part 1 Leanne Fortune
 00:13:10
Play 25 The Follower - Part 2 MamaPhish
 00:08:06
Play 26 The Proof docdlmartin
 00:26:30
Play 27 "Bushman's Paradise" docdlmartin
 00:28:37
Play 28 "The Drink of the Dead" A Legend of Bushmanland Gpolum
 00:22:59
Play 29 The Waters of Erongo lcollin
 00:14:12