Alone in West Africa
Alone in West Africa by Mary Gaunt is available here as the complete text, split into 871 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Alone in West Africa by Mary Gaunt. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #54400.
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Alone in West Africa
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II The Groundnut Colony
- Chapter III The White Man's Grave?
- Chapter IV Where the Black Man Rules
- Chapter V The Guinea Coast
- Chapter VI The King's Highway
- Chapter VII On the French Border
- Chapter VIII Alone in West Africa
- Chapter IX An Old Dutch Town
- Chapter X In the Paths of the Men of Old
- Chapter XI The Capital of the Gold Coast Colony
- Chapter XII Blood Fetish of Krobo Hill
- Chapter XIII The Fear That Skulked Beneath the Mango Tree
- Chapter XIV Into the Wilds
- Chapter XV Crossing the Border
- Chapter XVI One of the Curses of the Dark Continent
- Chapter XVII German Versus English Methods
- Chapter XVIII Keta on the Sand
- Chapter XIX Facing Death
- Chapter XX With a Companion
- Chapter XXI The West-African Goldfields
- Chapter XXII A New Trading Centre
- Chapter XXIII In the Heart of the Rubber Country
- Chapter XXIV An Outpost
- Chapter XXV The Land of Opportunities
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