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• Ako, Edward O. and Blossom N. Fondo. "Alterity and the Imperial Agenda: Mary Kingsley's `Travels in West Africa' and Gerald Durrell's `The Bafut Beagles'." Jouvert (Raleigh) 7, no. 2 (Winter/Spring 2003).
• Ardener, Shirley, ed. Swedish Ventures in Cameroon, 1883-1923: Trade and Travel, People and Politics: The Memoir of Knut Knutson with Supporting Material. Cameroon Studies 4. New York: Berghahn Books, 2002.
• Atikin. C’est fort partout. Fontaine, France: Éd. Thot, 2011.
• Ballot, Michel. À la recherche du mokélé-mbembé. Paris: Trésor, 2014.
• Bauer, Fritz. L'expédition allemande, Niger-Bénoué-Lac Tchad (1902-1903). Translated by Eldridge Mohammadou. Paris: Karthala, 2002.
• Bazzy, Charles. Sun over the Dark Continent: Fifty-Five Years of Big Game Hunting in Sudan, Tanganyika, Zambia, Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Cameroon, and Elsewhere in Africa. Long Beach, CA: Safari Press, 2009.
• Bender, Carl Jacob. Twenty years among African Negroes. Little Blue Book 797. Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co., 1925.
• Beschta, Jim. North from Yaounde. Easthampton, MA: Adastra Press, 2010.
• Browning, Renee. Cameroon: Including Its History, the Archdiocese of Yaounde, the Basilique Marie-Reine-Des-Apotres, and More. N.p.: Earth Eyes Travel Guides, 2012.
• Burton, Richard Francis. Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains: An Exploration. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2011.
• Chapleau, Jean. Récit d’un séjour au Cameroun: le choc culturel d’un éducateur spécialisé. Longueuil. Québec: Béliveau éditeur, 2014.
• Cowell, John. Elephant Grass. Blackburn, UK: Cremer Press, 2007.
• Debel, Anne. Cameroon. Paris: Les Éd. du Jaguar, 2008.
• Denham, Dixon, Hugh Clapperton, and Walter Oudney. Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824. London: John Murray, 1826.
• Dippold, Max F. Kameruner Lesestücke aus der deutschen Kolonial- und Missionsliteratur. Combrand, France: Dippold, Max F., 2014.
• Dominik, Hans. Vom Atlantik zum Tschadsee: Kriegs- und forschungsfahrten in Kamerun. Berlin: Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn, 1908.
• Durrell, Gerald. The Bafut beagles. Naturebooks, Adventure library 6. London: Hart-Davis, 1958.
• Durrell, Gerald. A zoo in my luggage. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964.
• Ferrandi, Lt.-Col. Jean. Conquète du Cameroun Nord (1914-1915). Paris: C. Lavauzelle, 1928.
• Frobenius, Leo. Peuples et sociétés traditionelles du Nord-Cameroun. Translated from the German by Eldridge Mohammadou. Studien zur Kulturkunde 83. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1987.
• Fuchs, Regina. Kamerun: das komplette Reisehandbuch für Reisen und Kultur in einem der vielfältigsten Länder Afrikas - Kamerun, “Afrique en miniature”. Bielefeld, Germany: Reise-Know-How Peter Rump, 2007.
• Gide, André and Gertrud Müller. Kongo und Tschad. Hildesheim, Germany: Olms, 2008.
• Guide, André. Travels in the Congo. Translated by Dorothy Bussy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962.
• Hemminger, William J. African Son. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2012.
• Hill, Christopher R. Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy, a Memoir. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014.
• Hill-Murphy, Jacki. Advanturesses: rediscovering daring voyages into the unknown. United Kingdom: Adventuress Publishing, 2014.
• Holgate, Kingsley. Afrika: Dispatches from the Outside Edge: An Epic Journey to Save and Improve Lives. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik Travel and Heritage, 2009.
• James, Dennis and Barbara Grossman. Songs of the Baka and other discoveries: travels after sixty-five. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2017.
• Johnston, H. H. "Up the Cameroons River From Bell Town to Budiman." The Graphic 34 (Nov. 6, 1886): pp. 493-96.
• Kerlyve, Jean. Nama l'Ewondo: roman d'aventures sur le Cameroun. Paris: Debresse, 1959.
• Kingsley, Mary Henrietta and Elspeth Huxley. Travels in West Africa. London: Folio Society, 2007.
• Leiris, Michel. L'Afrique fantôme (de Dakar à Djibouti, 1931-1933). Les Documents Bleus in-octavo. Paris: Librairie Gallimard, 1934.
• Lembezat, Bertrand. Palabres en pays Kirdi: itinéraire d’un administrateur au Nord Cameroun, 1938-1940. Paris: Harmattan, 2009.
• Lemoigne, J. "Les pays conquis du Cameroun Nord." Bulletin du Comité de l'Afrique française, Renseginements coloniaux (1918): pp. 94-114, 130-153.
• Mackenzie, Jean Kenyon. Black Sheep: Adventures in West Africa. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1916.
• Mallart i Guimerà, Lluís. Soy hijo de los evuzok: la vida de un antropólogo en el Camerún. Barcelona: Ariel, 2007.
• Manser, Riaan. Around Africa on My Bicycle. Jeppestown; London: Jonathan Ball, 2010.
• Mansfeld, Alfred. Urwald-dokumente: vier Jahre unter den Crossflussnegern Kameruns. Berlin: D. Reimer, 1908.
• Martin, Julie Ann. “Africa: Central and Central Coast: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Nigeria, Sao Tome, Principe” in Travel-Ready Packing: Pack Light, Dress Right, Anytime, Anywhere : Based on Climate, Culture, Type of Trip and Gender. Los Angeles, CA: Argo and Cole, 2010.
• McDonough, Peter, Roslyn Robinson, and Steve Truelove. Cameroon Diary. Dewsbury: Book Factory, 2000.
• Milandri, Raffaella. Io e i pigmei: cronache di una donna nella foresta. Vicchio di Mugello, Firenze, Italy: Polaris, 2011.
• Morgen, Curt von. A travers le Cameroun du sud au nord. 2 vols. Paris: Harmattan, 2009.
• Mikhelson, André. Kings and Knaves in the Cameroons. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1938.
• Mueller, Andrew. “Kumbo and Bamenda, Cameroon November 2005,” in I Wouldn’t Start from Here: The 21st Century and Where It All Went Wrong, pp. 249-275. Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull, 2009.
• Mullen, J. G. "An Abstract from 'My Experience in Cameroons during the War'." Africa 78, no. 3 (2008): pp. 401-409.
• Murphy, Dervla. Cameroon with Egbert. London: Murray, 1989.
• Nanitélamio, Elise. Passeport pour Douala. Bordeaux: Elytis, 2011.
• Paholo, Katharina and Ruth Troxler. Mein Leben als Königin in Kamerun. Olten: Weltbild, 2010.
• Paholo, Katharina and Ruth Troxler. Schwarzer Prinz, weisse Königin: Königin Katharina--eine Schweizerin in Kamerun. Olten: Weltbild, 2008.
• Passarge, Siegfried. Adamaoua: Bericht über die Expedition des Deutschen Kameroun-Kommittees in den Jahren 1893-94. Berlin: D. Reimer, 1895.
• Pérez, Miquel Àngel. Cartes des del Camerun: sis anys a Blangoua. Barcelona: Saragossa, 2011.
• Perham, Margery. West African Passage: A Journey Through Nigeria, Chad, and the Cameroons, 1931-1932. Edited and with an Introduction by A. H. M. Kirk-Greene.  London: Peter Owen, 1983.
• Petition from the Bakweri Land Committee, Duala Branch Concerning the Cameroons under British Administration. n.p.: Trusteeship Council, United Nations, 1950.
• Pilley, Anthony. Sketches of Belo/Apuntes de Belo: Cameroon. N.p.: Summerhouse, 2009.
• Rein-Wuhrmann, Anna. Mein Bamumvolk im Grasland von Kamerun. Stuttgart: Evang. Missionsverlag, 1925.
• Rial, Jacques. Une croisière africaine: en canot pneumatique sur le Nyong camerounais, 1983-1988. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2007.
• Schestokat, Karin U. German Women in Cameroon: Travelogues from Colonial Times. Women in German Literature Series, vol. 7. New York and Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2003.
• Scotto, Emilio. “The Cameroon Train Chapter,” in The Longest Ride: My Ten-Year, 500,000 Mile Motorcycle Journey. St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks, 2007.
• Sende, Pierre. Gouverneur polio: le Rotary sur les rives du Congo. Paris: L'Harmattan,, 2011.
• Smith, Natalie. A Journey to Cameroon: "the Truth about Africa". Baltimore: Publish America, 2003.
• Smith, Sir Bryan Sharwood. Recollections of British Administration in the Cameroons and Northern Nigeria 1921-1957: "But Always as Friends". Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1969.
• Speede, Sheri. Kindred Beings: What Seventy-Three Chimpanzees Taught Me about Life, Love, and Connection. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2013.
• Steinmetz, Jean-Philippe. La pirogue blessée: Confidences d’un bistouri tropical. Paris: Harmattan, 2007.
• Stücke, Heinz, et al. Home Is Elsewhere: Heinz Stücke: 50 Years around the World by Bike. Brentford, England: Brompton Bicycle Ltd., 2015.
• Surén, Hans. Kampf um Kamerun. Wolfenbüttel: Melchior, Historischer Verl., 2012.
• Ternet, M. Bryce. Diplomatic Weekends in Africa. Baltimore, MD: PublishAmerica, 2010.
• Vandercook, John W. “The Mandate of Cameroun: A Vast African Territory Ruled by Petty Sultans Under French Sway.” National Geographic Magazine (Washington, DC) 59, no. 2 (Feb. 1931): pp. 225-260.
• Völker, Michael. Geschichten aus Kamerun: Kamerun, Afrika in Miniatur. Gelnhausen, Germany: Wagner, 2007.
• von Puttkamer, Jesko. Gouverneursjahre in Kamerun. Berlin: George Stilke, 1912.
• Williams, Aloha. Faraway Friends. Georgetown, TX: Georgetown Group, 2012.
• Winter, Stuart. “Cameroon, 2006: The Friendly Heart of Africa,” in Birdman Abroad. N.p.: Antique Collectors’ Club, 2012.
• Youngdale, Ingrid Trobish, Katrine Stewart, and Ulrike Chuchra. Der Weg nach Hause ist eine lebenslange Reise: Lebenserinnerungen. Wuppertal, Germany: R. Brockhaus, 2007.
• Zimmermann, Oscar. Durch Busch und Steppe: vom Campo bis zum Schari 1892-1902: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Schutztruppe von Kamerun. Berlin: E.S. Mittler, 1909.
• Zimmermann, Oscar. Durch Busch und Steppe: vom Campo bis zum Schari 1892-1902: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Schutztruppe von Kamerun. Wolfenbüttel, Germany: Melchior, Historischer Verl., 2013.
• Zintgraff, Eugen. Nord-Kamerun: Schilderung der im Auftrage des Auswärtigen Amtes zur Erschliessung des nördlichen Hinterlandes von Kamerun während der Jahre 1886-1892 unternommenen reisen. Berlin: Gebrüder Paetel, 1895.