Project Gutenberg 2025-06-16 Public domain in the USA. 313 Barth, Heinrich 1821 1865 Barth, Henry Barth, Johann Heinrich Abdul Karim Karim, Abdul Barth, H. (Heinrich) Barth, Henri Bernatz, Johann Martin 1802 1878 Bernatz, J. M. (Johann Martin) Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa, Vol. 1 (of 5) : $b being a journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H.B.M.'s Government, in the years 1849-1855 $aLondon :$bLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, $c1857, copyright 1858. Galo Flordelis (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Getty Research Institute and Smithsonian Libraries) "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.) https://archive.org/details/travelsdiscoveri01bart_2 20250320035221barth 1857 GB Reading ease score: 60.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Africa, Central -- Description and travel Africa, North -- Description and travel DT Text Category: Travel Writing Category: History - Modern (1750+) Category: Archaeology & Anthropology 1173119 2025-07-30T07:35:35.781647 text/html 1129379 2025-06-16T10:30:27 text/html 21570180 2025-07-30T07:36:11.160499 application/epub+zip 21551224 2025-07-30T07:35:45.607638 application/epub+zip 485598 2025-07-30T07:35:39.428649 application/epub+zip 20382083 2025-07-30T07:36:26.716438 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 20287470 2025-07-30T07:36:02.912543 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1013899 2025-07-30T07:35:31.721748 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 993686 2025-06-16T10:30:27 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15559 2025-07-30T07:36:27.041406 application/rdf+xml 13942 2025-07-30T07:35:39.706649 image/jpeg 2598 2025-07-30T07:35:39.571641 image/jpeg 20006413 2025-07-30T07:35:36.475665 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia de.wikipedia