Sold as a Slave

PENGUIN GREAT JOURNEYS NO. 8THE KINGDOM OF BENIN, C. 1755He has never even heard of white men, or of Europeans, or of the sea, when one night a small African boy is kidnapped from his village, tied up and put into a sack. From there he finds himself in the hold of a slave ship bound for the West Indies, chained to hundreds of others, longing for death. But Olaudah Equiano does not die. One day he will journey to freedom....Journey back in time with history’s greatest adventurers1 HERODOTUS Snakes with Wings and Gold-digging Ants2 MAS’ŪDĪ From Tbe Meadows of Gold3 MARCO POLO The Cuštoms of the Kingdoms of India4 CABEZA DE VACA The Shipwrecked Men5 WILLIAM DAMPIER Piracy, Turtles and Flying Foxes6 MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Life on the Golden Horn7 JAMES COOK Hunt for the Soutbern Continent8 OLAUDAH EQUIANO Sold as a Slave9 ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT Jaguars and Electric Eels10 SIR RICHARD BURTON To the Holy Shrines11 WALTER HENRY BATES In the Heart of the Amazon Forest12 ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE Borneo, Celebes, Aru13 MARK TWAIN Can-cans, Cats and Cities of Ash14 ISABELLA BIRD Adventures in the Rocky Mountains15 ANTON CHEKHOV A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire16 MARY KINGSLEY The Congo and the Cameroons17 ERNEST SHACKLETON Escape from the Antarctic18 GEORGE ORWELL Fighting in Spain19 WILFRED THESIGER Across the Empty Quarter20 RYSZARD KAPUŚCIŃSKI The Cobra’s Heart