African Impressions: How African Worldviews Shaped the British Geographical Imagination Across the Early Enlightenment

by Rebekah Mitsein

Shortlist--2023 Oscar Kenshur Book Prize
Winner--2022 Walker Cowen Memorial Prize

Nineteenth-century European representations of Africa are notorious for depicting the continent with a blank interior. But there was a time when British writers filled Africa with landed empires and contiguous trade routes linked together by a network of rivers. This geographical narrative proliferated in fictional and nonfictional texts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813947901
• ISBN13: 9780813947907
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher