Download or read book A Geographical Survey of Africa written by James MacQueen and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Geographical Survey of Africa 1840 written by James Macqueen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Geographical Survey of Africa, 1840 The very great and unexpected delay (above three months) which has taken place in engraving and bringing forward the map which accompanies this work, has enabled me to reconsider a few of the numerous authorities, and frequently not very specific or clear narratives which could alone be obtained as guides for the subsequent geographical survey of Africa, in order to make such amendments as appear to approach to a greater degree of accuracy in one or two points connected with African geography. The first is in reference to the Travels of Wargee, pp. 111 and 112. He gives the distance from Yaoori to the Niger, at Cabra, forty-one days' journey. On the fifth day he reached Karamanee, on the sixth day Cumba, where he crossed the Kowara; thence to Gourmon (the capital, of course) ten days; Gourmon to Moush, ten days; Moush to Imbolee, ten days; and Imbolee to the Niger, at Cabra, five days. The reader will perceive how accurately this distance, at 15 1/2 geographical miles per day, corresponds with the positions of Yaoori and Timbuctoo on the map drawn before his journey or authority was at all adverted to. Karamanee, mentioned by Wargee, is, I am convinced, the Karmassee of Park's guide, which he places in his narrative above Gourmon, instead of below it, mistakes which are quite common in the narratives of African travellers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.

Download or read book A Geographical Survey of Africa Its Rivers Lakes Mountains Productions States Populations c with a Map of an Entirely New Construction to Which is Prefixed a Letter to Lord John Russell Regarding the Slave Trade and the Improvement of Africa written by James MacQueen and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). Library and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1895 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes list of members.

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society May 1865 written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). Library and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society written by Royal Geographical Society (Grande-Bretagne). Library and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society written by Royal Geographical Society and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Supplement to the Catalogue of the Library of Congress December 1840 December 1848 written by United States. Library of Congress. Catalog, 1840a and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Trans Saharan Slave Trade written by John Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling text sheds light on the important but under studied trans-Saharan slave trade. The author uncovers and surveys this, the least-noticed of the slave trades out of Africa, which from the seventh to the twentieth centuries quielty delievered almost as many black Africans into foreign servitude as did the far busier, but much briefer Atlantic and East African trades. Illuminating for the first time a significant, but ignored subject, the book supports and widens current scholarly examination of Africans' essential role in the enslavement of fellow-Africans and their delivery to internal, Atlantic or trans-Saharan markets.

Download or read book Classfied catalogue of the library of the Royal geographical society by G M Evans written by Godfrey Matthew Evans and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Catalogue of the Mercantile library in New York Catalogue of the Cabinet etc written by Mercantile Library Association (NEW YORK) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mastering the Niger written by David Lambert and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mastering the Niger, David Lambert recalls Scotsman James MacQueen (1778–1870) and his publication of A New Map of Africa in 1841 to show that Atlantic slavery—as a practice of subjugation, a source of wealth, and a focus of political struggle—was entangled with the production, circulation, and reception of geographical knowledge. The British empire banned the slave trade in 1807 and abolished slavery itself in 1833, creating a need for a new British imperial economy. Without ever setting foot on the continent, MacQueen took on the task of solving the “Niger problem,” that is, to successfully map the course of the river and its tributaries, and thus breathe life into his scheme for the exploration, colonization, and commercial exploitation of West Africa. Lambert illustrates how MacQueen’s geographical research began, four decades before the publication of the New Map, when he was managing a sugar estate on the West Indian colony of Grenada. There MacQueen encountered slaves with firsthand knowledge of West Africa, whose accounts would form the basis of his geographical claims. Lambert examines the inspirations and foundations for MacQueen’s geographical theory as well as its reception, arguing that Atlantic slavery and ideas for alternatives to it helped produce geographical knowledge, while geographical discourse informed the struggle over slavery.