Lights and shadows of African history
By: by the author of Peter Parley's tales
Series: Parley's cabinet library -- v. 10; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Published by Geo. C. Rand, Cornhill. Wm. J. Reynolds and Company
Published: 1852
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: History; Antiquities; Colonization
Other titles: African history.
Notes: Spine title: African history.

Prepared under the direction of Samuel G. Goodrich.

Copyright 1844 by S.G. Goodrich.

"Press of George C. Rand & Co."--Title page verso.

Error in pagination; page 331 misnumbered 33.

"Parley's cabinet library ... 10"--Series title, list, and advertisement, [4] pages at end.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Africa as known to the ancients; title: Ancient Egypt; title: Antiquities of Egypt; title: The French in Egypt; title: Mehemet Ali; title: The Carthaginians; title: The Barbary States; title: Maderia; title: Discoveries of the Portuguese in Africa; title: Vasco de Gama; title: Timbuctoo; title: Sierra Leone; title: Mungo Park's travels; title: first journey; title: Mungo Park's travels; title: second journey; title: Riley's adventures; title: Bornou; title: Travels of Clapperton and Lander; title: The slave-trade; title: The Ashantees; title: Southern Africa; title: Madagascar; title: The Abyssinians.