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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    February 2012
    June 2011
    ISBN:
    9781139057905
    9781108031950
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139057905
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.62kg, 494 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, African Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Historical Geography, History, Anthropology, African History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, African Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Historical Geography, History, Anthropology, African History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies
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    William Holman Bentley (1855–1905) was a missionary who spent twenty-one years in the area of the Congo. Originally published in 1900, these two volumes document the pioneering work of travellers to the area between 1879 and 1899. During that time it progressed from being virtually unexplored to a fully charted region with government officers, traders and missionaries operating far and wide. As the only foreign witness to the entire period, Bentley provides an authoritative account of the dramatic developments he observed in the Congo's geography, culture, religion and commerce. Volume 1 sets the discussion within a historical context, and moves on to recount the missionaries' objectives and their effect on the native tribes. Finishing by revealing the important discovery of a new route to the upper river, it presents a unique and insightful study that remains relevant to geographers, ethnologists and historians alike.

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