Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa, Vol. 1 (of 5) (Registro nro. 117041)
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | DT |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Barth, Heinrich, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1821-1865 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa, Vol. 1 (of 5) |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-06-16 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Galo Flordelis (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Getty Research Institute and Smithsonian Libraries) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa, Vol. 1 (of 5) : being…" by Henry Barth is an expedition journal and geographical-ethnographic account written in the mid-19th century. It charts a British-sponsored journey from the Mediterranean coast into the Sahara and Central Africa, blending routes, maps, natural history, and close observations of Arab, Berber, and Black African societies. The work addresses exploration goals (notably the Niger–Bénué system), antiquities, and the politics of slavery and Islam in the region. It will appeal to readers interested in rigorous travel narrative, early scientific fieldwork, and the cultural and political textures of the Sahara’s borderlands. The opening of the book sets out Barth’s enlistment in the British mission led by James Richardson, his reasons for joining, the government’s aims (exploration and anti–slave-trade diplomacy), and practical choices such as traveling armed, carrying a boat, and once adopting a Muslim guise for safety. The Preface distinguishes foreign slave-trading from domestic slavery, explains Barth’s decision to witness a slave-raiding campaign to report it accurately, and lays out scientific goals, mapping methods, and his system for spelling African names. It sketches the vast scope of travel and peoples encountered and acknowledges collaborators, maps, and illustrations. Chapter I then narrates the journey from Tunis to Tripoli via coastal towns, a grueling sail across the Lesser Syrtis and the Djerba channels, and an overland caravan by Lake Bibán and Zuwara to the capital. At the start of Chapter II, while awaiting equipment, Barth and Overweg make a preliminary excursion into the mountain belt south of Tripoli, describing plantations, wadis, Roman ruins (notably the Enshéd e’ Sufét sepulchre), Berber villages, geology, springs, and the hardships of wind, cold, and uncertain paths under Ottoman oversight. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1857 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Africa, Central -- Description and travel |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Africa, North -- Description and travel |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bernatz, Johann Martin, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1802-1878 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/travelsdiscoveri01bart_2">https://archive.org/details/travelsdiscoveri01bart_2</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76316">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76316</a> |
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