Africa, a distant and mysterious continent, has long attracted sailors, merchants, scientists, adventurers and conquerors from many countries in Europe and Asia. A lot of evidence has survived about the legendary travels to Africa of the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, about the campaigns of the Greeks and Romans, about the conquests of the Arabs and crusaders. But both thirty centuries ago and today, the African continent is still fraught with many mysteries that still excite the imagination of travelers and scientists. The authors will tell readers about the dangers of the Sahara, about the knights of the mysterious presbyter John, about the stone ruins of Zimbabwe, about the bullfighting on Pemba, the lost city of Farini and much more.