Thinking Black by Dan Crawford

Dan Crawford’s account of his 22 Years work in the Congo. This volume has a number of superb colour plates. My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing a copy of this public domain book for digitisation.

Daniel Crawford [1870-1926], Thinking Black: 22 Years without a Break in the Long Grass of Central Africa, 2nd edn. London: Morgan and Scott Ltd., 1913. Hbk. pp.502. [Click to visit the Dan Crawford page for the download link to this title and others]

Contents

• Publisher’s Note
• Acknowledgments

1. First Fears Justified
2. First Things First
3. Far, yet not Farthest, In
4. Our African Apprenticeship
5. “Boring in” Farther
6. Eastward Ho!
7. “Own Up and Pay Up”
8. Dark Doings in Luvaleland
9. The Desert Journey
10. Farthest, but Shut, In
11. Vice Versa
12. Shut in, but Almost Out
13. Black Suffragettes
14. Thus Far and No Farther
15. Red Sunsets
16. “Nemesis, Daughter of Night”
17. Our Eastern Exodus
18. Boring out East
19. Kavanaga: The Gates of the Morning
20. “Great White Lake”
21. A Page of History
22. Black Man=Black Manners
23. “THe Year of Love”: An Epilogue

• L’Envoi
• index