The ruined cities of Mashonaland: Being a record of excavation and exploration in 1891
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Chapters (39)(click to expand)
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.
- PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PART I ON THE ROAD TO THE RUINS
- CHAPTER I THE JOURNEY UP BY THE KALAHARI DESERT ROUTE
- CHAPTER II FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF MASHONALAND
- CHAPTER III CAMP LIFE AND WORK AT ZIMBABWE
- PART II DEVOTED TO THE ARCHÆOLOGY OF THE RUINED CITIES
- CHAPTER IV DESCRIPTION OF THE VARIOUS RUINS
- CHAPTER V ON THE ORIENTATION AND MEASUREMENTS OF ZIMBABWE RUINS.
- CHAPTER VI THE FINDS AT THE GREAT ZIMBABWE RUINS
- CHAPTER VII THE GEOGRAPHY AND ETHNOLOGY OF THE MASHONALAND RUINS
- PART III EXPLORATION JOURNEYS IN MASHONALAND
- CHAPTER VIII DOWN TO THE SABI RIVER AND MATINDELA RUINS
- CHAPTER IX FORT SALISBURY AND THE OLD WORKINGS AND RUINS OF THE MAZOE VALLEY
- CHAPTER X OUR EMBASSY TO THE CHIEF ’MTOKO
- CHAPTER XI THE RUINED CITIES IN MANGWENDI’S, CHIPUNZA’S, AND MAKONI’S COUNTRIES
- CHAPTER XII THE JOURNEY TO THE COAST
- APPENDICES
- APPENDIX A Notes on the Geography and Meteorology of Mashonaland
- APPENDIX B List of Stations in Mashonaland Astronomically Observed, with Altitudes
- APPENDIX C Addenda to Chapter V
- APPENDIX D.
- HEALTH.
- TOWNSHIPS
- ROADS.
- BEIRA RAILWAY.
- AGRICULTURE.
- GOLD.
- INDEX
- Colophon
- Availability
- Metadata
- Revision History
- External References
- Corrections
- Abbreviations
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