(lit. 'Explorers in Africa: Towards the Sources of the Nile'; English edition: The Exploration of Africa: From Cairo to the Cape) is the first book of this miniseries and the 117th title of collection. Despite the small format, the book is distinguished by the huge number of colour illustrations taken from 19th century journals and other sources, the quality of the colour is remarkable. The body text is divided into five chapters: I, A World to Explore; II, The Mystery of the Source of the Nile; III, Livingstone's Mission in Southern Africa; IV, Into the Heart of the Forest; V, The Explorer's Profession. The text follows the steps of those explorers in Africa: Richard Francis Burton, John Hanning Speke, James Augustus Grant, Samuel Baker, Henry Morton Stanley, David Livingstone, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Jean-Baptiste Marchand and Mary Kingsley. In less than fifty years, in the late 19th century, they penetrated the heart of Africa, discovered the sources of the Nile, explored the Congo and Zambezi Basins, surveyed the Mountains of the Moon. But these explorers also revealed the riches of the black continent to the European colonisers. The Documents section at the back features excerpts from the explorers' own journals which is divided into five parts: 1, Preparing an Expedition; 2, The Explorers Confront Africa; 3, The Advent of Colonialism; 4, The Explorer's Changing Image; 5, Patrons. These are followed by a map, a chronology, further reading, list of illustrations and an index. The book has been translated into American and British English, Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, simplified and traditional Chinese.