Tramping Through Africa
A Dozen Crossings of the Continent
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4633802 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William J W Roome |
| Year | 1931 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 177 |
| Publication date | 1931-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1784412 |
| OpenAlex | W2056772712 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
available. The methods of the French as colons (Anglice, planters) and the results so far obtained by their enterprise are interesting and instructive. A rather backward state of Public Works, now being corrected, is attributed to paucity of funds, but may be in some measure due to too frequent change of Governors-General and consequent discontinuity of policy. The geographical parts of the work are especially well done and the numerous maps and charts at the ends of the volumes are in accordance with the high standards of French cartography. An interesting collection of ancient maps of Further India is distributed through the text. The last section of the book deals with the picturesque, with sport and with tourisme, in ways calculated to arouse the interest of any who may be in search of new playgrounds. M. Albert Sarraut, twice Governor-General of French Indo-China, Colonial Minister and Senator, contributes a preface to the work, combining a benediction on the labours of the Editor and his associates with a somewhat grandiloquent laudation of the altogether superior altruism claimed to have inspired French conquests in Asia. Students of Colonial Affairs will join him in congratulating M. Maspero on the appearance of this excellent book which sets the seal upon his fine record as explorer, administrator, and philologist, but, in the light of estab? lished fact, may decline to be convinced of much difference between French motives for Colonial expansion and those of other nations. The illustrations are a notable feature. Those in the text are well chosen and good, while the plates are excellent. Pictures of Angkor, without which no book on French Indo-China would be complete, are numerous almost to redundancy. There is a copious index to each volume. The general appearance of the work is ponderous. The paper is heavy and glazed, the type excellent, the binding negligible. W. A. G
Arithmetic · Dozen · Geography · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Mathematics
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2013 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |