Africa
With Ethnological Appendix (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Africa: With Ethnological Appendix<br><br>In reading through Mr. Keane's excellent translation of that section of Yon Hellwald's Die Erde und Hire Volker which is devoted to Africa, it soon became evident that the author had taken a more national view of our present knowledge of this vast continent than would be acceptable to English readers-German work in the field of African discovery was fully developed, the achievements of British and other foreign explorers more hastily sketched.<br><br>It is not that we would undervalue for a moment the labours of Germany in Africa. Our knowledge of the immense region of the Sahara and the Sudan has resulted almost exclusively from the arduous journeyings of Barth and Yogel, of Bohlfs, Schweinfurth, and Nachtigal; but in giving these their due share of honour, it cannot be forgotten that we owe to the enduring toil of Livingstone, of Burton, Speke, and Grant, of Cameron, Gordon, and Stanley, the rolling back of the clouds of obscurity which, until a few years ago, hid from view all but the coast-line of the still greater expanse of Equatorial and Southern Africa.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.