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WE can recommend this moderate-sized volume as an interesting popular résumé of the progress of discovery in Africa from the earliest time to the present day. The author writes mainly from the point of view of missionary enterprise, but seems to have read with diligence and intelligence the greater part of the literature of modern African travel, with which his book is mostly concerned, and has made therefrom a creditable compilation showing the progress of discovery from Bruce downwards. The first chapter gives a brief account of the topography, climate, and productions of Africa; and the accompanying pretty clear map shows the route of the leading explorers. We notice one or two signs of carelessness or haste; for example, on p. 4, Mr. Forbes states that “the most westerly point is Cabo Verde, in long. 51° 25′ E., lat. 10° 25′ N., the distance between the two points being about the same as its length.” Again, at p. 115, “Sahara Desert” ought surely to be “Kalahari Desert.”
Africa: Geographical Exploration and Christian Enterprise.
A. Gruar
Forbes
By. (London: Sampson Low and Co. 1874.)
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Africa: Geographical Exploration and Christian Enterprise . Nature 10, 83 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/010083a0
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