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CONTENTS
ОглавлениеPART ONE: A World Apart
1. Wonders of India, Treasures of China
4. Islam Rules in the Land of Zanj
5. On the Silk Route to Cathay
7. The Wandering Sheikh Goes South
8. Adventures in India and China
9. Armadas of the Three-Jewel Eunuch
10. Ma Huan and the House of God
11. The King of the African Castle
PART TWO: The Cannons of Christendom
12. Prince Henry’s Far Horizons
13. Commanding the Guinea Coast
15. The Lust for Pepper, the Hunt for Prester John
16. The Spy Who Never Came Home
17. Kings and Gods in the City of Victory
18. Da Gama Enters the Tropical Ocean
20. The Fateful Pride of Ibn Majid
23. The Viceroy in East Africa
24. Defeating the Ottoman Turks at Diu
25. The Great Afonso de Albuquerque
26. Ventures into the African Interior
27. From Massawa to the Mountains
28. At War with the Left-handed Invader
29. Taking Bible and Sword to Monomotapa
30. Turkish Adventurers, Hungry Cannibals
32. The Lost Pride of Lusitania
33. Calvinists, Colonists and Pirates
34. Ethiopia and the Hopes of Rome
35. The Great Siege of Fort Jesus
36. Western Aims, Eastern Influences
PART THREE: An Enforced Tutelage
37. Settlers on India’s Southern Approaches
38. The Seas beyond Napoleon’s Reach
39. The French Redoubt and the Isle of Slaves
40. ‘Literally a Blank in Geography’
41. Two Ways with the Spoils of War
42. The Sultan and the King’s Navy
43. Stepping Back from East Africa
44. The Americans Discover Zanzibar
45. Looking Westwards from the Raj
46. Portents of Change in the ‘English Lake’
47. In the Footsteps of a Missionary
48. Warriors, Hunters and Traders
49. A Proclamation at the Custom House
50. Meeting the Lords of the Interior
51. The Failure of a Philanthropic Scotsman
52. Imperialism Abhors a Vacuum
53. Bismarck and the Gesellschaft
54. Africa Hears the Maxims of Faith and War
