I mainly read and collect authors who write about southern Africa
I also enjoy accounts of Nile Exploration
My preference is for publications prior to 1930, but I do read and collect a few modern authors
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My Favorite Author, Henry Rider Haggard
fiction, non-fiction
Exploration of Southern Africa, Before the Victorian Era
Jan Van Riebeeck
1st Commander of the Cape of Good Hope, 1651 to 1662
François Valentyn
Description of the Cape of Good Hope, 1685 to 1714
Peter Kolben
The Present State of the Cape of Good-Hope, 1731
Andrew Anders Sparrman
A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, 1772 to 1776
William Paterson
Four Journeys into the Country of the Hottentos and Caffraria, 1777-1789
François Levaillant
Travels into the Interior Parts of Africa, 1780 to 1785
John Barrow
Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa, 1797 to 1804
John Campbell
Travels in South Africa: First Journey 1812, Second journey 1819
Christian Latrobe
Journal of a visit to South Africa in 1815, and 1816
Barnabas Shaw
Memorials of South Africa, 1816 to 1837
J.W.D. Moodie
Ten Years in South Africa, 1819 to 1829
Andrew Steedman
Wanderings and Adventures in the Interior of Southern Africa, 1820 to 1831
Thomas Pringle
Narrative of a Residence in South Africa, 1820 to 1826
Henry Francis Fynn
Diary, 1822 to 1841
George Thompson
Travels and Adventures in Southern Africa, 1823 to 1824
Nathaniel Isaacs
Travels and Adventures in Eastern Africa, 1825 to 1831
Allen Gardiner
Narrative of a Journey to the Zoolu Country, 1834
William Cornwallis Harris
The Wild Sports of Southern Africa, 1836 to 1837
James Alexander
Expedition of discovery into the interior of Africa, 1838
Victorian/Edwardian Authors, Southern Africa
R. Gordon Cumming
non-fiction
E. Elers Napier
non-fiction
James Chapman
non-fiction
Francis Galton
 non-fiction
William C. Holden
 non-fiction
Charles John Andersson
non-fiction
Joseph Shooter
non-fiction
Mayne Reid
fiction
Frank Oates
non-fiction
A.W. Drayson
fiction, non-fiction
William BaldwinÂ
non-fiction
F.C. Selous
non-fiction
John MackenzieÂ
non-fiction
Walter Montagu Kerr
non-fiction
Ernest Glanville
primarily fiction
Bertram Mitford
primarily fiction
Barney Barnato
non-fiction
Percy FitzpatrickÂ
fiction, non-fiction
F.S. Brereton
 fiction
H. A. Bryden
fiction, non-fiction
Perceval Gibbon
 fiction
Victorian Authors, Nile Exploration
John Hanning Speke
non-fiction
James Augustus Grant
non-fiction
Samuel Baker
primarily non-fiction, but some fiction as well
John Petherick
non-fiction
David Livingstone
non-fiction
Henry Morton Stanley
primarily non-fiction, but some fiction as well
Other Authors: Victorian Era to 1930s
Herbert Strang
fiction
Other Authors
fiction, non-fiction
Modern Fiction Authors, Southern Africa
Wilbur Smith
Tony Park
Bryce Courtenay
Alan Scholefield
Stuart Cloete
Robert W. Krepps
John Wilcox
John Gordon Davis
