Fetichism in West Africa: Forty Years' Observation of Native Customs and Superstitions

West African studies

Mary Henrietta Kingsley

The work is a scholarly ethnographic study of West Africa, framed as a corrective to the scant and often…

Dawn in darkest Africa

John H. Harris

The work is a lengthy, polemical study of European involvement in West‑African territories, written by John…

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 2

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The work is a Victorian‑era travelogue that blends personal narrative with ethnographic observation of…

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 1

Sir Richard Francis Burton

This volume is a first‑hand travel narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton, the famed Victorian explorer,…

The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, Embracing the Whole Period of Spanish Rule

Foreman, John, F.R.G.S.

John Foreman’s work is a sweeping survey of the Philippines under three centuries of Spanish rule, presented…

Reise in die Aequinoctial-Gegenden des neuen Continents. Band 2.

Alexander von Humboldt

Der vorliegende Band ist ein wissenschaftlich‑geographischer Bericht des berühmten Naturforschers Alexander…