The ruined cities of Mashonaland
by J. Theodore Bent
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About this eBook
- Author
- Bent, J. Theodore (James Theodore), 1852-1897
- Title
- The ruined cities of Mashonaland: Being a record of excavation and exploration in 1891
- Original Publication
- United Kingdom: Longmans, Green and Co.,1892,pubdate 1895.
- Credits
- Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DT: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Africa
- Subject
- Extinct cities -- Zimbabwe -- Mashonaland
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 69067
- Release Date
- September 29, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- 3.PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
- 4.PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- 5.CONTENTS
- 6.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 7.ON THE ROAD TO THE RUINS
- 8.THE JOURNEY UP BY THE KALAHARI DESERT ROUTE
- 9.FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF MASHONALAND
- 10.CAMP LIFE AND WORK AT ZIMBABWE
- 11.DEVOTED TO THE ARCHÆOLOGY OF THE RUINED CITIES
- 12.DESCRIPTION OF THE VARIOUS RUINS
- 13.ON THE ORIENTATION AND MEASUREMENTS OF ZIMBABWE RUINS.
- 14.THE FINDS AT THE GREAT ZIMBABWE RUINS
- 15.THE GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY OF THE MASHONALAND RUINS
- 16.EXPLORATION JOURNEYS IN MASHONALAND
- 17.DOWN TO THE SABI RIVER AND MATINDELA RUINS
- 18.FORT SALISBURY AND THE OLD WORKINGS AND RUINS OF THE MAZOE VALLEY
- 19.OUR EMBASSY TO THE CHIEF ’MTOKO
- 20.THE RUINED CITIES IN MANGWENDI’S, CHIPUNZA’S, AND MAKONI’S COUNTRIES
- 21.THE JOURNEY TO THE COAST
- 22.APPENDICES
- 23.Notes on the Geography and Meteorology of Mashonaland
- 24.List of Stations in Mashonaland Astronomically Observed, with Altitudes
- 25.Addenda to Chapter V
- 26.APPENDIX D. — HEALTH. — TOWNSHIPS — ROADS. — BEIRA RAILWAY. — AGRICULTURE. — GOLD.
- 27.INDEX
- 28.Colophon — Availability — Metadata — Revision History — External References — Corrections — Abbreviations
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