Through the heart of Africa : being an account of a journey on bicycles and on foot from Northern Rhodesia, past the great lakes, to Egypt, undertaken when proceeding home on leave in 1910
Through the heart of Africa is a 1912 travel account by Frank Melland and Edward Cholmeley, published in Boston by Houghton Mifflin, describing a journey on bicycles and on foot from Northern Rhodesia past the great lakes to Egypt in 1910. Its photographs show a large spreading tree over a camp, colonial station buildings with verandahs and gardens, and three standing African men in loincloths against dry scrub, offering a designer plain documentary scenes of landscape, architecture and figures.
