A Journey To Ashango-land: And Further Penetration Into Equatorial Africa

Owen, Richard

ISBN 10 : 1175120804 ISBN 13 : 9781175120809

Editeur : Nabu Press, 2011

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The position of an explorer of unknown countries in England is peculiar, and very difficult. If he returns home with nothing new or striking to relate he is voted a bore, and his book has no chance of being read; if he has some wonders to unfold, connected with Geography, theN atives, or Natural History, the fate of Abyssinian Bruce too often awaits him: his narrative being held up to scorn and ridicule, as a tissue of figments. It was my lot, on the publication of my first volume of travels in Equatorial A frica, to meet with a reception of that sort from many persons in England and Germany. In fact I had visited a coiH itry previously unexplored byE uropeans the wooded region bordering theE quator, in the interior of Western Africa and thus it was my good fortune to observe the habits of several remarkable species of animals found nowhere else. Hence my narrative describing unknown animals was condemned. The novelty of the subject was too striking for some of my critics; and not only were the accounts I gave of the animals and native tribes stigmatized as false, but my journey into the interior itself was pronounced a fiction.
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Nabu Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1175120804
• ISBN 13: 9781175120809
• Reliure: Livre broché
• Nombre de pages: 578