{"product_id":"2940015846973","title":"Travels in West Africa","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE.\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE TO THE ABRIDGED EDITION OF TRAVELS IN WEST AFRICA.\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION.\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.     LIVERPOOL TO SIERRA LEONE AND THE GOLD COAST.\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II.    FERNANDO PO AND THE BUBIS.\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III.   VOYAGE DOWN COAST.\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV.    THE OGOWE.\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V.     THE RAPIDS OF THE OGOWE.\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VI.    LEMBARENE.\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VII.   ON THE WAY FROM KANGWE TO LAKE NCOVI.\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VIII.  FROM NCOVI TO ESOON.\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IX.    FROM ESOON TO AGONJO.\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER X.     BUSH TRADE AND FAN CUSTOMS.\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XI.    DOWN THE REMBWE.\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XII.   FETISH.\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIII.  FETISH--(Continued).\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIV.   FETISH--(Continued).\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XV.    FETISH--(Continued).\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVI.   FETISH--(Concluded).\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVII.  ASCENT OF THE GREAT PEAK OF CAMEROONS.\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVIII. THE GREAT PEAK OF CAMEROONS--(Continued).\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIX.   THE GREAT PEAK OF CAMEROONS--(Continued).\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XX.    THE GREAT PEAK OF CAMEROONS--(Concluded).\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXI.   TRADE AND LABOUR IN WEST AFRICA.\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXII.  DISEASE IN WEST AFRICA.\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX.      THE INVENTION OF THE CLOTH LOOM.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTO THE READER.--What this book wants is not a simple Preface but an\u003cbr\u003eapology, and a very brilliant and convincing one at that.\u003cbr\u003eRecognising this fully, and feeling quite incompetent to write such\u003cbr\u003ea masterpiece, I have asked several literary friends to write one\u003cbr\u003efor me, but they have kindly but firmly declined, stating that it is\u003cbr\u003eimpossible satisfactorily to apologise for my liberties with Lindley\u003cbr\u003eMurray and the Queen's English.  I am therefore left to make a\u003cbr\u003efeeble apology for this book myself, and all I can personally say is\u003cbr\u003ethat it would have been much worse than it is had it not been for\u003cbr\u003eDr. Henry Guillemard, who has not edited it, or of course the whole\u003cbr\u003eaffair would have been better, but who has most kindly gone through\u003cbr\u003ethe proof sheets, lassoing prepositions which were straying outside\u003cbr\u003etheir sentence stockade, taking my eye off the water cask and fixing\u003cbr\u003eit on the scenery where I meant it to be, saying firmly in pencil on\u003cbr\u003emargins \"No you don't,\" when I was committing some more than usually\u003cbr\u003eheinous literary crime, and so on.  In cases where his activities in\u003cbr\u003ethese things may seem to the reader to have been wanting, I beg to\u003cbr\u003estate that they really were not.  It is I who have declined to\u003cbr\u003eascend to a higher level of lucidity and correctness of diction than\u003cbr\u003eI am fitted for.  I cannot forbear from mentioning my gratitude to\u003cbr\u003eMr. George Macmillan for his patience and kindness with me,--a mere\u003cbr\u003ejungle of information on West Africa.  Whether you my reader will\u003cbr\u003eshare my gratitude is, I fear, doubtful, for if it had not been for\u003cbr\u003ehim I should never have attempted to write a book at all, and in\u003cbr\u003eorder to excuse his having induced me to try I beg to state that I\u003cbr\u003ehave written only on things that I know from personal experience and\u003cbr\u003every careful observation.  I have never accepted an explanation of a\u003cbr\u003enative custom from one person alone, nor have I set down things as\u003cbr\u003ebeing prevalent customs from having seen a single instance.  I have\u003cbr\u003eendeavoured to give you an honest account of the general state and\u003cbr\u003emanner of life in Lower Guinea and some description of the various\u003cbr\u003etypes of country there.  In reading this section you must make\u003cbr\u003eallowances for my love of this sort of country, with its great\u003cbr\u003eforests and rivers and its animistic-minded inhabitants, and for my\u003cbr\u003eability to be more comfortable there than in England.  Your superior\u003cbr\u003eculture-instincts may militate against your enjoying West Africa,\u003cbr\u003ebut if you go there you will find things as I have said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJanuary, 1897.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE TO THE ABRIDGED EDITION OF TRAVELS IN WEST AFRICA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen on my return to England from my second sojourn in West Africa,\u003cbr\u003eI discovered, to my alarm, that I was, by a freak of fate, the sea-\u003cbr\u003eserpent of the season, I published, in order to escape from this\u003cbr\u003ereputation, a very condensed, much abridged version of my\u003cbr\u003eexperiences in Lower Guinea; and I thought that I need never explain\u003cbr\u003eabout myself or Lower Guinea again.  This was one of my errors.  I\u003cbr\u003ehave been explaining ever since; and, though not reconciled to so\u003cbr\u003edoing, I am more or less resigned to it, because it gives me\u003cbr\u003epleasure to see that English people can take an interest in that\u003cbr\u003eland they have neglected.  Nevertheless, it was a shock to me when\u003cbr\u003ethe publishers said more explanation was required.  I am thankful to\u003cbr\u003esay the explanation they required was merely on what plan the\u003cbr\u003eabridgment of my first account had been made.  I can manage that\u003cbr\u003eexplanation easily.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47164888744176,"sku":"2940015846973","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015846973","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}