Tucson Weekly: Discovering Africa (January 7 - January 13, 1999)
A Fascinating History Of Humanitys Sprawling First Home. By Gregory McNamee , by John Reader (Alfred A. Knopf). Cloth, $35. A CENTURY AGO, a Polish-born writer who had traveled the world reflected on the way in which fellow 19th-century explorers had enshrined even the most remote spots of the globe in atlases and military maps. Even hitherto little-known Africa, as the narrator of Joseph Conrads novel Heart of Darkness recalled, "was not a blank space any more. It had got filled since my boyh...
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