The exploration of Africa
By: Jean de la Guérivière ; translated from the French by Florence Brutton.
Publisher: Overlook Duckworth
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Woodstock, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Discovery and exploration; Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Discovery and exploration -- Pictorial works
Genres: Pictorial works.
Description: "Illustrated in full-color, The Exploration of Africa offers the opportunity to share the sights and impressions of the actual explorers - both in their words and with photographs of what they saw - and the chance to see how their adventures resonated in the public imagination, with reproductions of the art and ephemera, newspaper and magazine illustrations, that were inspired by them."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published in French under title: Exploration de l'Afrique noire. Paris : Editions du Chêne, c2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-211).