- 1982 first edition, 336 pages
- Published by Allen Lane
- Hardcover with dust jacket, brown boards
- Very good condition, light tanning and minor foxing.
Black and White maps and illustrations . Index included Europeans in the Dark Continent 1769-1889.
'So Geographers in Afic-maps, With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps; And o'er inhabitable Downs Place elephants for want of Towns'
Jonathan Swift was quite right; in the eighteenth century ' the Dark Continent' was barely known. And it was in order to 'cast light upon this darkness' that the African Association was formed by the rich members of a fashionable dining club in London in 1788. Thereafter, for a hunderd years, expedition after expedition set out to explore these remote lands.
In his lucid and vivid narrative, Christopher Hibbert provides a marvellously evocative account of these explorations, of the remarkable men who conducted them and of the strange countries and peoples they discovered.
Based upon the explorers' letters and diaries and the printed records of their dramatic journeys, Africa Explored provides an illuminating and unforgettable impression of the continent and its inhabitants as they appeared to Europeans before the age of colonialism changed both for ever.
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