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Across The Dark Continent. Bicycle Diaries from Africa 1931-1936

Across The Dark Continent. Bicycle Diaries from Africa 1931-1936

Kazimierz Nowak

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English edition of the bestseller Rowerem i pieszo przez Czarny Ląd.

A solitary traveller moves tirelessly forward. His path leads him through breathtaking landscapes, past picturesque waterfalls, smoking volvanoes, countless herds of wild animals reigning over boundless spaces, through desert sand, the barren savannah and overgrown forest trails. He stops from time to time to take a photograph or make a note in his journal, and then moves on again, pushing his rickety bicycle loaded with some modest possessions. This is Kazimierz Nowak, the author of this story which, like a fairytale, transports us to a wonderful kingdom, distant in both space and time: Africa in the 1930s.

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER
  • INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
  • PROLOGUE
  • PART I
    • LIBYA
      • 1. Tripoli The adventure begins
      • 2. The desert prayer
      • 3. The first bicycle at the Gates of the Sahara
      • 4. A month of desert adventures
      • 5. An Arab wedding
      • 6. Across a war-torn wilderness
      • 7. My summons to the Zone Headquarters
      • 8. Along the coast of Cyrenaica
    • EGYPT
      • 9. Life in Egypt
      • 10. Where the wealth of three worlds flows
      • 11. A letter from the banks of the Nile
      • 12. A royal banquet
    • SUDAN
      • 13. The two capitals of Sudan
      • 14. Heading to the missions on the Blue and White Niles
      • 15. A legend
      • 16. Hunting in Sudan
    • BELGIAN CONGO, RUANDA-URUNDI
      • 17. By the golden rivers of the Belgian Congo
      • 18. Across cannibal country
      • 19. Among the Pygmies
      • 20. Climbing the Ruwenzori peaks
      • 21. By the Mountains of the Moon
      • 22. The Equators welcome
      • 23. By Lake Kivu
      • 24. At the Rwandan royal court
      • 25. On the cotton trail
      • 26. Among the worlds largest cities
      • 27. The Great Depression in Katanga
      • 28. Fighting bayonets with crosses
      • 29. The prospect of a muddy death
      • 30. A fools gold
      • 31. A desolate kingdom
    • RHODESIA
      • 32. In a Rhodesian village
      • 33. In paradise
      • 34. Christmas, 1933
      • 35. In the golden town of the bankrupt
    • UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA
      • 36. White Africa
      • 37. The Boers from the Transvaal the veterans of the 1902 War
      • 38. A night at Cape Agulhas
  • PART II
    • 1. Winter in Cape Town
    • 2. A godforsaken land
    • SOUTH WEST AFRICA
      • 3. The Dog Tax Revolt
      • 4. Little Poland
      • 5. The mysterious Lake Otjikoto
    • ANGOLA
      • 6. The rainy season in Ovambo
      • 7. A cruel, primeval paradise
      • 8. Christmas with expats in Angola
      • 9. A letter from the Moxico Jungle
      • 10. On the banks of the Kasai River... on the brink of a new adventure
      • 11. A castaway of the Dark Continent
      • 12. A walk through Angola towards the Equator
    • BELGIAN CONGO
      • 13. A letter from the banks of the Kasai River
      • 14. A real king at last!
      • 15. Lest I be eaten
      • 16. A hermit from Kraków
      • 17. The white captain of the Dark Continent
      • 18. By boat, to the union of the Kasai and the Congo
    • FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA
      • 19. In darkest Africa
      • 20. At the Equator
      • 21. A letter from the subequatorial jungle
      • 22. Mail at the Equator
      • 23. Black Paris
      • 24. A paradise of pots
      • 25. Ueli: a new friend
      • 26. The caravan
    • FRENCH WEST AFRICA AND ALGERIA
      • 27. Racing death
      • 28. Where dead men camp, where vultures prey
      • 29. Oasis
      • 30. Farewell
  • POSTHUMOUS TRIBUTE
  • TRANSLATORS POSTSCRIPT
  • ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
  • FOOTNOTES
  • Title: Across The Dark Continent. Bicycle Diaries from Africa 1931-1936
  • Author: Kazimierz Nowak
  • Original title: Rowerem i pieszo przez Czarny Ląd
  • Translation: Ida Naruszewicz-Rodger
  • ISBN: 9788365419828, 9788365419828
  • Date of issue: 2023-10-05
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3oi3
  • Publisher: DM Sorus