Negroland (Classic Reprint) [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Jones, Charles H.

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ISBN 10: 1330574982 ISBN 13: 9781330574980

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Its usefulness, however, will not, it is believed, be confined to the class of busy readers above indicated. Those who read for themselves the numerous books of African travel, can only by the closest attention to the text and persistent study of the maps understand what relation the work of each explorer bears to that of the others. To the difficulty, in it self great, of carrying many details in the mind, is to be added that which comes from the diversity of nomenclature on the part of the various writers. Scarcely any two of them give the same name to any comparatively obscure place, and when they do, are very likely to spell it in a different way. The Londa country, for instance, of Livingstone's first book, is the same as the Cazembe of his second, while Magyar, who was the first to explore it, writes of it as the Moluwa kingdom. The Uganda and Karagwe, which Burton describes on hearsay evi dence in his book, are by no means the Uganda and Karagwe of Speke. And the Bari tribeof Speke becomes the Barre nation in Baker's last book. Such diversities as these are innumera ble; and if the present work did no more than remove them, it would relieve the study of African exploration of a most fruitful source of confusion.

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Our knowledge of the geography and peoples of Africa has grown very rapidly during the past thirty years, and is growing still. Probably no portion of the world has been made the subject of so many books in so short a time; and these, added to the records of earlier explorers, constitute a literature of such dimensions that only those readers who have abundant leisure, and who are conversant with at least three languages, can hope to become familiar with it. And yet nearly every intelligent reader, especially when any new book of African travel has attracted his attention, desires to have a distinct and definite conception of what has been accomplished, and of what remains to be accomplished, in the way of discovery; it is impossible, for instance, for any one to grasp the really important facts in Dr. Schweinfurth's great work, or in Livingstone's recently published "Journals," without knowing just how far the discoveries therein recorded supplement those of other explorers, and what relation they bear to the existing body of geographical and ethnographical knowledge. To supply such information is the object of the present work. If its execution corresponds with its plan, the reader will find here a record of explorations in Africa from the time of the Phœnicians to the death of Livingstone, comprehensive enough to put him in possession of all the essential facts and successive steps in the opening of that mysterious continent, and at the same time detailed enough to give him a fair conception of the work performed by each of the more prominent individual explorers.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330574982
• ISBN 13: 9781330574980
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 540