Adventures in Africa
by W.H.G. Kingston
Publisher: Athelstane e-Books 1883
ISBN/ASIN: B004G5YLY6
Number of pages: 239
Description:
In this book the hero, fresh from school, arrives from England, and joins his uncle, who is a trader with the people of central Africa, bringing the goods obtained down to the south. On this occasion they have been attacked soon after they set out by natives led by Boers. In order to complete their journey to central Africa they decide to return with the few animals left to them, horses and an ox, over the Kalahari Desert.
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