LibGuides: Primary Sources: Africa: Personal Narratives

Book Sources: Personal Narratives - Africa

A selection of books/e-books available in Trible Library.
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African Diary : the day-by-day account of an increible adventure by Pillman, Naka.
Call Number: DT12.2 .P55 1990
ISBN: 0937552313

The year was 1963. Naka Pillman & her 12-year-old daughter joined a supposedly legitimate tour group only to see the arrangements disintegrate. She faced a series of threatening situations ranging from killer ants to a plot to sell the young girls on the tour (which included her daughter) into white slavery. Description from Google Books
African Exploits by Roy MacLaren
Call Number: DT363.2.S73 A3 1998
ISBN: 0773516409

The Diaries of William Stairs, 1887-1892
The Journal of a Mission to the interior of Africa, in the year 1805 by Mungo Park
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

Together with other documents, official and private, relating to the same mission. To which is prefixed an account of the life of Mr. Park.
Letters from Africa, 1914-1931 by Isak Dinesen
Call Number: PT8175.B545 Z5313 1981
ISBN: 0226153096

... contain the raw material that was later transformed into her classic memoir Out of Africa (1937) Description from Google Books
Revolution Is My Name by Mona Prince; Samia Mehrez
Call Number: DT107.87 .P7 2014
ISBN: 9774166698

: An Egyptian Woman's Diary from eighteen days in Tahrir
Two Voyages to Sierra Leone during the years 1791-2-3: In a Series of Letters by Anna Maria Falconbridge
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust

to which is added a letter from the author to Henry Thornton ... chairman of the Court of Directors of the Sierra Leone Company
The Zambesi Doctors by R. Foskett (editor)
A collection of David Livingstone's letters to John Kirk, 1858:1872

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