Highlights of the Society's Collections & further reading & resources

The Society's Foyle Reading Room has over 500 items relating specifically to Mozambique, as well as modern guide books covering the region. The following are available for reference in the Foyle Reading Room.

For information, please visit the Society’s on-line catalogue.

Or visit the Foyle Reading Room in person, where a member of the Collections team will be able to assist.

  Books/Pamphlets

• Culture and customs of Mozambique. Ndege, 2006. (new books)
• Mozambique, Lonely Planet Guide. Fitzpatrick, 2000. (FRR/02B)
• Mozambique: the tortuous road to democracy. Cabrita, 2000. (mg BG/136F/215029)
• Confronting Leviathan: Mozambique since independence. Young & Hall, 1997. (new books)
• Mozambique: rising from the ashes. Waterhouse, Oxfam, 1996. (mg 256D)
• Cotton is the mother of poverty: peasants, work,& rural struggle in Colonial Mozambique 1938-61. Isaacman, 1995. (new books)
• Kalashnikovs and zombie cucumbers: travels in Mozambique. Nick Middleton, 1995. (new books)
• Guide to Mozambique. Bradt Publications, 1994. (mg FRR/02B)
• Three years sport in Mozambique. Vasse, translated from French, 1909. (mg 256D/338683)
• Travels in Eastern Africa, with a narrative of a residence in Mozambique. McLeod, 1860.
  (mg 611D/323868)
• The languages of Mosambique: vocabularies of the dialects of…. Bleek, 1856. (mg African Languages/303831)
• A three years cruize in the Mozambique Channel for the suppression of the slave trade. Lt. Barnard, 1848. (mg 611D/302279)

  Maps

• Mozambique, ITMB, 1:1 900 000, 2001.
  (mr Mozambique G.26)
• Mozambique, 1:2 500 000, 1987.
  (mr Mozambique S/G.5)
• Carta da Colόnia de Moçambique, 1:250 000, 1938. 60 sheets. (mr Mozambique G.2)
• Carta da Colόnia de Moçambique, 1:500 000, 1939. 18 sheets. (mr Mozambique G.1)
• Copy of the signed maps illustrating the course of the Anglo-Portuguese Boundary in East Africa,1:250 000, 1912. (mr Mozambique S/S.44)
• Eastern Africa between the Rovuma and Zambesi Rivers…Royal Geographical Society’s expedition to the Namuli Peaks, 1885-7. 1:1 450 000, 1890. (mr Mozambique Div.6)
• Preliminary map of a journey to Lake Kilwa (June 11th 1883 to January 20th 1884). H.E.O’Neill, H.M. Consul at Mozambique. 1:1 000 000, 1884. (mr Mozambique S.80)
• Map of the River Shire, the Lakes Nyassa and Shirwa, the lower courses of the Rivers Zambesi and Rovuma. Based on astronomical observations and sketches of Livingstone. John Arrowsmith, 1882.
  (mr Mozambique S/G.3)
• Route from Ruvuma River towards the southern end of Lake Nyasa, William Desborough Cooley, [1864]. (mr Mozambique S/S.31)
• Map of the Rovuma River, David Livingstone, 1861. (mr Mozambique S.47)
• Map of River Zambesi from Senna to Tete, Thomas Baines, 1859. (mr Mozambique S.45)
• Map of the River Zambesi below Tete, showing the track of the ‘Ma Robert’, Thomas Baines, 1859. (mr Mozambique S.67)

Copies of selected maps  may be purchased as prints from the Foyle Reading Room. For more information please contact enquiries@rgs.org or +44 (0)20 7591 3044.

  Picture Library Material
Highlights include photographs by:

• Sir Harry H. Johnston
• Lt. Col. A. J. Arnold
• Major J. Stevenson-Hamilton

Prints of photographs and other images can be purchased from the Society’s Picture Library website, for more information log on to www.rgs.org/images and keyword search for historical and contemporary photographs.

  Journal Articles

• 'A hunting trip to Mozambique in 1868' by Dick Hobson (Geographical Journal Vol.149, No.2, July 1983, pp. 202-210) - article on JStor
• 'Mozambique: A Geographical Study' by Arthur Holmes, Alexander Wray (Geographical Journal Vol.42, No.2, Aug 1913, pp.143-152) - article on JStor
• 'Notes on Mozambique Exploration' by R.L. Reid (Geographical Journal Vol.42, No.1, July 1913, pp.44-49) - article on JStor
• 'On the Coasts Lands and Some Rivers and Ports of Mozambique' by H.E. O’Neill (Proceedings Vol.4, No.10, Oct 1882, pp.595-605) - article on JStor
• 'The geography of N’yassi, or the Great Lake of Southern Africa'  by William Desborough Cooley (Journal of RGS, Vol.15, 1845, pp.185-235 - article on JStor

  Journal Maps
Several Mozambique maps from the Society’s publications are available for purchase. For more information, please contact enquiries@rgs.org or + 44 (0)20 7591 3044.

• General map of the Makua Country & Route Map, H.E.O’Neill, 1882, £15 (440)
• Map of the Mozambique Coast to illustrate the paper by H.E.O’Neill, 1882, £15 (442)
• Map illustrating Mr O’Neill journey into the Mavia Country, H.E.O’Neill, 1883, £15 (461)
• Preliminary map of a journey to Lake Kilwa by H.E.O’Neill, 1884, £30 (476
• Mouths of the Zambesi River, Daniel.J.Rankin, 1890, £20 (579)
• Map of F.C.Selous’ route in Eastern Mashona Land, 1890, £20 (584)
• Map of Gaza Land showing route taken by D.Doyle, 1891, £15 (603)
• Map of the Anglo-Portuguese Boundary in East Africa, J.J. Leverson, 1893, £35 (646)
• The country between Lake Chiuta and River Luli, F.B.Pearce, 1900, £15 (806)

  Further Reading

• Mozambique mysteries, St. Aubin De Teran, Virago Press, 2007, ISBN: 9781844083008
• Mozambique (Globetrotter Travel Pack), 2006, ISBN: 9781845375423
• Gone Diving Mozambique, Outskirts P., 2006, ISBN: 9781598004991
• A history of Mozambique, Newitt, Hurst & Co., 1995, ISBN: 1850651728
• A complicated war: the harrowing of Mozambique, Finnegan, 1993, ISBN: 9780520082663

  Internet resources & online travel reviews

• High Commission of the Republic of Mozambique
• A jungle trek in Mozambique (Times online Jan 27, 2008)
• Diving the coral reefs of Mozambique (Times online Feb 3, 2007)
• Mozambique, not as we knew it (Times online Apr 1, 2005)
• Mozambique: treasure islands (Telegraph 11 Jun, 2005)

Views and opinions on external websites do not reflect those of the Society.