The Challenge of Africa

Aldus encyclopedia of discovery and exploration #12

by Elspeth Huxley

1. The Dark Continent 2. Fist Reports3. Tracking the Nile4. The Dutch and British in South Africa 5. Early Missionaries6. Livingstone and the Zambezi7. South of Aswan8. That Mighty Stream the Nile9. Lake Albert10. The White Nile and the Congo11. Three Great Problems solved12. The River of Gazelles13. Completing the Puzzle14. Past, present and Future

Genres: History, Africa

191 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Elspeth Joscelin Huxley was an English writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. She wrote over 40 books, including her best-known lyrical books, The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard, based on her youth in a coffee farm in British Kenya. Her husband, Gervas Huxley, was a grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley and a cousin of Aldous Huxley.