The French in Algiers
Travel Narratives, Conquest, and Colonial Encounters in Nineteenth-Century AlgeriaBy Clemens Lamping, Ernest Alby
Length7h 11m
About this audiobook
The French in Algiers brings together accounts that examine conquest, colonial administration, urban encounter, and the contested meanings of Algeria under French rule. Its materials move between historical narration, political observation, and descriptive prose, allowing military events and civic transformations to be read alongside the textures of everyday colonial life. The collection's significance lies in its capacity to expose both the ambitions of French expansion and the complex, often unequal, contact zones produced in Algiers. Associated with Clemens Lamping and Ernest Alby, the volume reflects a tradition of writing in which travel, reportage, history, and colonial commentary overlap. Their perspectives belong to a broader nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary culture that sought to interpret North Africa for European readers, while inevitably revealing the assumptions, curiosities, and ideological pressures of empire. Read collectively, these voices illuminate how Algiers became a site of strategic importance, cultural fascination, and representational struggle. This volume is recommended for readers of colonial history, Francophone cultural studies, travel writing, and Mediterranean literature. It offers a valuable opportunity to compare modes of observation within a single book and to consider how narrative form shapes historical understanding. Its varied perspectives invite informed discussion of imperial power, cross-cultural perception, and the enduring literary afterlives of French Algeria.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.1 (16)
Includes Amazon, Goodreads
GenreHistorical Fiction, General Fiction
Length7 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 23, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Book of the Feet (Annotated)
12CHAPTER II.
2PREFACE.
13CHAPTER III.
3CHAPTER I.
14CHAPTER IV.
4CHAPTER II.
15CHAPTER V.
5CHAPTER III.
16CHAPTER VI.
Mostrar todos os capítulosVer menos
6CHAPTER IV.
17CHAPTER VII.
7CHAPTER V.
18CHAPTER VIII.
8CHAPTER VI.
19CHAPTER IX.
9CHAPTER VII.
20CHAPTER X.
10CHAPTER VIII.
21CHAPTER XI.
11CHAPTER I.
Scaramouche (Annotated)Rafael Sabatini15h 24m4.6 (1.8K)$2 · $0.00
The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5)Jackie French14h 58m4.6 (773)$33 · $0.00
The Labyrinth of the SpiritsCarlos Ruiz Zafon27h 55m4.5 (77.2K)$53 · $0.00
ShivajiRanjit Desai25h 13m4.6 (3.1K)$24 · $0.00
The Things We Cannot SayKelly Rimmer13h 48m4.5 (359.1K)$33 · $0.00
Lieutenant Hornblower (Annotated)C. S. Forester11h 41m4.5 (2.9K)$2 · $0.00
A Christmas Carol (Illustrated Edition)Charles Dickens3h 23m4.5 (21.2K)$1.99 · $0.00
Rilla of InglesideLucy Maud Montgomery11h 44m4.5 (48.2K)$2 · $0.00
The Viennese DressmakerKathryn Gauci11h 46m4.5 (2.1K)$23 · $0.00
The Man in the Brown Suit & They Came to BaghdadAgatha Christie15h 43m4.6 (495)$33 · $0.00
Under the Light of the Italian MoonJennifer Anton12h 28m4.5 (5.3K)$23 · $0.00
Jubilee, 50th Anniversary EditionMargaret Walker15h 43m4.5 (9.5K)$25 · $0.00
Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen14h 44m4.4 (4.7M)$2 · $0.00
Flying Colours (Annotated)Cecil Louis Troughton Smith9h 26m4.4 (10.1K)$2 · $0.00
With Love from HarlemReShonda Tate13h 48m4.5 (2K)$6 · $0.00
Sweet Home Highland ChristmasMay McGoldrick, Jan Coffey2h 54m4.5 (1.4K)$7 · $0.00
Rilla of InglesideL. M. Montgomery12h 25m4.4 (67.5K)$2 · $0.00
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Annotated)Willa Cather9h 13m4.4 (4.7K)$2 · $0.00
The Alice NetworkKate Quinn15h 7m4.4 (887.1K)$33 · $0.00
The Goddess of WarsawLisa Barr13h 4m4.4 (36.4K)$33 · $0.00
WhistlerAnn Patchett10h 45m4.6 (4.6K)$29 · $0.00
Demon CopperheadBarbara Kingsolver21h 3m4.5 (949.4K)$46 · $0.00
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee12h 18m4.5 (7.4M)$29 · $0.00
Remarkably Bright CreaturesShelby Van Pelt11h 17m4.4 (1.7M)$29 · $0.00
This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald11h 30m4.6 (1.6K)$2 · $0.00
War LordBernard Cornwell13h 21m4.6 (33.1K)$33 · $0.00
The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic NovelFrancis Scott Fitzgerald4h 45m4.6 (9.3K)$18 · $0.00
Something Like LoveBeverly Jenkins10h 21m4.6 (2.7K)$29 · $0.00
Black History CollectionFrederick Douglass, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois27h 9m4.6 (2.6K)$18 · $0.00
The Old Man and the Sea (Annotated)Ernest Hemingway4h 27m4.6 (1.4K)$2 · $0.00
White HotIlona Andrews13h 18m4.5 (136.9K)$5 · $0.00
The Ghost by the Billabong (The Matilda Saga, #5)Jackie French14h 58m4.6 (773)$33 · $0.00
Cast in BloodMichelle Sagara16h 35m4.6 (607)$33 · $0.00
The Captain Blood Trilogy (Annotated)Rafael Sabatini29h 20m4.6 (1K)$3 · $0.00
Ship of the Line (Annotated)Cecil Louis Troughton Smith11h 13m4.6 (1K)$2 · $0.00
The George Orwell CollectionGeorge Orwell24h 46m4.5 (14.4K)$12 · $0.00
ShivajiRanjit Desai25h 13m4.6 (3.1K)$24 · $0.00
Time RegainedMarcel Proust15h 38m4.5 (9.2K)$2 · $0.00
Driving ForceElle James4h 58m4.6 (407)$20 · $0.00
When God Calls the HeartBrian Bird, Michelle Cox3h 24m4.6 (439)$10 · $0.00
You may also like
FireSebastian Junger8h 26m3.8 (3K)$26 · $0.00
FreedomSebastian Junger3h 7m4.0 (7.9K)$24 · $0.00
The Apache Expedition in the Sierra MadreJohn Gregory Bourke3h 12m4.2 (339)$1.99 · $0.00
The Complete Novels of Jack London – 22 Adventure Classics in One Volume (Illustrated) (Annotated)Jack London188h 23m4.5 (2.2K)$2 · $0.00
The Call of the WildJack London3h 34m4.1 (547.7K)$1 · $0.00
The Indian War of 1864Eugene Fitch Ware16h 29m4.2 (774)$2 · $0.00
Three Years Among the Comanches (Annotated)Nelson Lee5h 56m4.0 (1.5K)$2 · $0.00
White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-WarHerman Melville15h 45m3.8 (5K)$2.30 · $0.00
On the Border with CrookJohn Gregory Bourke20h 33m4.3 (1.1K)$30
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria & Ian Hamilton's March (Annotated)Winston Churchill17h 52m$2 · $0.00
The Relief of ChitralG. J. Younghusband, Francis Edward Sir Younghusband2h 59m4.1 (23)$2 · $0.00
From the Cape to Cairo: The First Traverse of Africa from South to North (Annotated)Ewart Scott Grogan, Arthur H. Sharp8h 24m$2 · $0.00
Los GringosH. A. Wise13h 32m4.3 (10)$1 · $0.00
The Railway Conquest of the WorldFrederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot12h 38m$2.30
Campaigning in Kaffirland; Or, Scenes and Adventures in the Kaffir War of 1851-52William Ross King10h 24m$2 · $0.00
Across Patagonia (Annotated)Lady Florence Dixie5h 31m3.9 (149)$2 · $0.00
A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV (Annotated)Baron George Anson Anson15h 37m$2 · $0.00
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - 175+ Western Novels & Short Stories in One EditionMark Twain, James Fenimore Cooper, Max Brand, James Oliver Curwood, B. M. Bower, Zane Grey, Jackson Gregory, Jack London, William MacLeod Raine, William Patterson White, Rex Beach, Emerson Hough, Will Lillibridge, Andy Adams, Bret Harte, Owen Wister, Washington Irving, Willa Cather, O. Henry, Grace Livingston Hill, Charles King, Charles Alden Seltzer, Stephen Crane, Dane Coolidge, Marah Ellis Ryan, Francis William Sullivan, Frederic Homer Balch, Frederic Remington, Robert W. Chambers, Forrestine C. Hooker, James B. Hendryx, Frank H. Spearman, J. Allan Dunn, Ann S. Stephens, Robert E. Howard, Clarence E. Mulford, R.M. Ballantyne, Charles Siringo, Isabel E. Ostrander, Frederic Logan Paxson1012h 24m4.3 (13)$1 · $0.00
The Old Santa Fe Trail, The Story of A Great HighwayHenry Inman16h 8m4.0 (86)$2.30
A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 (Annotated)Knight of Elvas5h 34m3.8 (39)$2 · $0.00