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Through the heart of Africa : being an account of a journey on bicycles and on foot from Northern Rhodesia, past the great lakes, to Egypt, undertaken when proceeding home on leave in 1910

Melland, Frank H. (Frank Hulme), 1879-1939, Cholmeley, Edward H, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · 1912 · Boston : Houghton Mifflin · 11 pictures

Through the heart of Africa is a 1912 travel account by Frank Melland and Edward Cholmeley, published in Boston by Houghton Mifflin, describing a journey on bicycles and on foot from Northern Rhodesia past the great lakes to Egypt in 1910. Its photographs show a large spreading tree over a camp, colonial station buildings with verandahs and gardens, and three standing African men in loincloths against dry scrub, offering a designer plain documentary scenes of landscape, architecture and figures.

Africa, East -- Description and travel

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