Across The Dark Continent Kęty

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. Spis treści: 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