Tomek on the Black Continent

Alfred Szklarski

It is a second book in Alfred Szklarski’s (1912–1992), a famous Polish writer, legendary series about wonderful adventures of a young traveler Tomek Wilmowski. This is a story of his dangerous expedition together with a trappers’ party onto the Equatorial Africa. There the boy hunts for lions, giraffes, gorillas, rhinos and other exotic animals, trying to confirm his authority as a skillful hunter, which he gained during his previous trip to Australia. He also defeats mean slave trader, wins a fight with the real cannibals and becomes renown as a great magician. In Africa Tomek befriends Masai-warriors, an experienced guide Hunter, and a Negro-boy Sambo, whom he delivers from slavery… Soon after the expedition Tomek will start to a new one and no less exciting: a voyage to America.