The Book of Travels in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

Collection History

This digital compilation was developed in support of the NYPL website, "The African American Migration Experience," a sweeping 500-year historical narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans.

Related Resources

NYPL. "In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience."(2005) <http://www.inmotionaame.org>

Collection Data

Names
Frost, John, 1800-1859 (Author)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1846
Place: New York
Publisher: Appleton
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
Shelf locator: Sc Rare 916-F
Topics
Africa -- Discovery and exploration
Genres
Illustrations
Notes
Content: Includes accounts of the travels of Bruce, Ledyard, Park, Burckhardt, Denham, Clapperton, Lander, Davidson and Laing.
Physical Description
Engravings
Extent: Xii, 252 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPGR8072019-B
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11705318
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): dda95a80-c624-012f-2dba-58d385a7bc34
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