Download or read book Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa written by Paul B. Du Chaillu and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-09 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa - With Accounts of the Maners and Customs of the People, and of the Chance of the Gorilla is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1861. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Download or read book Exploration and Adventures in Equatorial Africa written by Paul Belloni Du Chaillu and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa written by Paul B. Du Chaillu and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories of the Gorilla Country written by Paul Du Chaillu and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The adventures of Du Chaillu were vastly more hazardous and interesting than those of either Livingstone or Stanley." - The Illustrated American A hugely popular novel based on Du Chaillu's true stories of African exploration was published in 1921 under the title "Tarzan of the Apes." When only a boy of eighteen Du Chaillu sailed from New York to West Africa, whence he made his way into the interior unattended by any such army and retinue of soldiers as assisted Stanley in his exploits. After years in the heart of Africa Du Chaillu returned to this country with unheard of stories of adventures among exotic wild beasts and tribes. Paul Belloni Du Chaillu ( 1831 - 1903) was an American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas, and later the Pygmy people of central Africa. He was sent in 1855 by the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia on an African expedition. Until 1859, he explored the regions of West Africa in the neighborhood of the equator, gaining considerable knowledge of the delta of the Ogooué River and the estuary of the Gabon. During his travels from 1856 to 1859, he observed numerous gorillas, known to non-locals in prior centuries only from an unreliable and ambiguous report credited to Hanno the Navigator of Carthage in the 5th century BC and known to scientists in the preceding years only by a few skeletons. He brought back dead specimens and presented himself as the first white European person to have seen them. Du Chaillu wrote about his African adventures in his 1871 book "Stories of the Gorilla Country." In writing about a new species of hominid Du Chaillu states: " I happened to look up at a high tree which we were passing, and saw a most singular shelter or home built in its branches. I immediately stopped and asked Okabi why the hunters slept in that way in the woods. Okabi laughed, after looking at me quizzically, and then he told me that no man had ever built that shelter. He said that it was made by a kind of man of the woods, called nshiego mbouve", an animal which had no hair on the top of its head. I really thought Okabi was joking. An animal-a man-monkey-with no hair on the top of his head?-a bald-headed ape?" In writing of a close encounter with a gorilla, Du Chaillu states: "Suddenly an immense gorilla advanced out of the wood straight toward us, and gave vent, as he came up, to a terrible howl of rage, as much as to say," I am tired of being pursued, and will face you." It was a lone male, the kind which are always most ferocious. This fellow made the woods resound with his roar, which is really an awful sound, resembling very much the rolling and muttering of distant thunder. . . ." Du Chaillu was eventually able to capture live species of gorilla which he tamed but was unfortunately not immune from the lure of hard drink as Du Chaillu relates: "He showed an extraordinary fondness for strong drink. Whenever a negro had palm wine Tommy was sure to know it. He had a decided taste for Scotch ale, of which I had a few bottles, and he even begged for brandy. Indeed, his last exploit was with a brandy bottle. One day, before going out to the hunt, I had carelessly left the bottle on my chest. The little rascal stole in and seized it; and, being unable to get out the cork, in some way he broke the bottle. When I returned, after some hours' absence, I found my precious bottle broken in pieces! It was the last; and to an African traveler brandy is as indispensable as quinine. Master Tommy was coiled up on the floor amid the fragments in a state of maudlin drunkenness." "Stories of the Gorilla Country" contains descriptions of marvelous adventures and cannot fail to entertain.
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Download or read book Stories of the Gorilla Country written by Paul Belloni Du Chaillu and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Belloni Du Chaillu was a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas, and later the Pygmy people of central Africa. -- Wikipedia
Download or read book The Country of the Dwarfs written by Paul Chaillu and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth classic study of African wildlife, culture, and native tribes as they existed in the mid-1800s, written by the first European explorer to confirm the existence of gorillas and African pygmies. Following on from his My Apingi Kingdom, Stories of the Gorilla Country, Wild Life Under the Equator, and Lost in the Jungle, adventurer Paul du Chaillu describes in vivid detail African life before the advent of European colonization, and the astonishing practices, culture, and environment which existed at that time. This work is particularly valuable as it shows, without prejudice or favor, Africa as it was, as seen by one of the first European explorers to set foot inside the interior of the Dark Continent. This last book of his adventures in Equatorial Africa tells of the second of his two great discoveries: that of the Pygmy people of Africa, previously only mentioned in the work of Herodotus and thought to be mythological. It also relates his astonishing endeavors to reach the Nile. Not only did that expedition fail, but his presence generated enmity amongst many tribes, who quite falsely believed that he had brought sickness and death to the natives. Shot through the stomach with a poisoned arrow, Du Chaillu barely escaped this expedition alive, and never returned to Africa after it. This is a hand-restored and re-set edition, complete with original illustrations.
Download or read book Lost in the Jungle Narrated for Young People written by Paul B. Du Chaillu and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Lost in the Jungle; Narrated for Young People" by Paul B. Du Chaillu. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The Country of the Dwarfs written by Paul Du Chaillu and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth classic study of African wildlife, culture, and native tribes as they existed in the mid-1800s, written by the first European explorer to confirm the existence of gorillas and African pygmies. Following on from his My Apingi Kingdom, Stories of the Gorilla Country, Wild Life Under the Equator, and Lost in the Jungle, adventurer Paul du Chaillu describes in vivid detail African life before the advent of European colonization, and the astonishing practices, culture, and environment which existed at that time. This work is particularly valuable as it shows, without prejudice or favor, Africa as it was, as seen by one of the first European explorers to set foot inside the interior of the Dark Continent. This last book of his adventures in Equatorial Africa tells of the second of his two great discoveries: that of the Pygmy people of Africa, previously only mentioned in the work of Herodotus and thought to be mythological. It also relates his astonishing endeavors to reach the Nile. Not only did that expedition fail, but his presence generated enmity among many tribes, who quite falsely believed that he had brought sickness and death to the natives. Shot through the stomach with a poisoned arrow, Du Chaillu barely escaped this expedition alive, and never returned to Africa after it. This is a hand-restored and re-set edition, complete with original illustrations.
Download or read book Wild Life Under the Equator written by Paul Du Chaillu and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second classic study of African wildlife, culture, and native tribes as they existed in the mid-1800s, written by the first European explorer to confirm the existence of gorillas and African pygmies. Following on from his sensation Stories of the Gorilla Country, adventurer Paul du Chaillu describes in vivid detail African life before the advent of European colonization, and the astonishing practices, culture, and environment which existed at this time. This work is particularly valuable as it shows, without prejudice or favor, Africa as it was, as seen by one of the first European explorers to set foot inside the interior of the Dark Continent.
Download or read book Harper s New Monthly Magazine written by Henry Mills Alden and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important American periodical dating back to 1850.
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Download or read book Stories of the Gorilla Country written by Du Chaillu-P and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-27 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Journey to Ashango Land written by Paul Du Chaillu and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most famous early white explorers of central West Africa, the American Paul du Chaillu won fame for confirming the existence of the gorilla-and for his accurate and breathtaking descriptions of the life, customs and behavior of Africans in the pre-colonial era. This book was written after the author's last expedition into the African interior when Du Chaillu set out with the intention of reaching the Nile River. After over a year of travel, the expedition failed and he was forced back after being wounded by a poison arrow during an attack by a hostile interior tribe. The high adventure of Du Chaillu's expedition-and brutally frank descriptions of his encounters with the natives-are just part of what makes this work a compelling read. It also contains vivid and uncensored descriptions of native African culture, cannibalism, tribal warfare, witchdoctors, superstition, and technology. His astute observations were used by Oxford University professor John R. Baker in a section on African cognitive ability in his classic work Race. His description of African slavery in particular, is highly relevant, as it shows that the biggest traders in slaves were the Africans themselves, despite all efforts by the British Royal Navy to halt the practice. This new edition has been completely reset and contains all 23 illustrations and maps which accompanied the original work.
