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Exploring Africa Introduction Island 1: Africa Before European Exploration Island 2: Portuguese Discoveries and Dutch Map-makers Island 3: Exploration from the Cape to the Nile Island 4: West Africa, the Niger, and the Quest for Timbuktu Island 5: Central and East Africa, and the Legacy of Exploration References Return to Rare Books and Special Collections 

Exploring Africa

An Exhibit of Maps and Travel Narrativesoriginally displayed February-April 1997Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolinabased on an exhibit by Patrick Scotthypertext by Jason A. PierceMap of AfricaWilhelm Blaeu's 1617 map of AfricaThis exhibit puts on display one of the hidden resources of Thomas CooperLibrary's Special Collections, a selection from the many books of traveland exploration purchased for the original South Carolina College Libraryin the early and middle nineteenth century. The exhibition illustratesmost of the major phases in the European exploration of Africa, from thelate fifteenth century to the late nineteenth century.The exhibition begins with a series of very beautiful Renaissance maps,showing the tracing of the African coastline in the late fifteenth century,by Portuguese seamen, and with the widely-translated early account of WestAfrica by the Arab scholar Leo Africanus. Included here are the magnificentfacsimile of a fifteenth-century manuscript Ptolemy, purchased in 1983from the John Shaw Billings Endowment, and Wilhelm Blaeu's famous map ofAfrica (1617). Also from the Renaissance is another Dutch engraver Theodorde Bry's 1598 map from his famous Voyages, kindly loaned for this exhibitby James P. Barrow, '62.But the heart of the exhibit lies with the many early editions of thegreat names in the European exploration of the African interior—James Bruce,Mungo Park, Burckhardt, Clapperton, Laing, Caillie, Lander, and others.With many different motivations—adventure, fame, scientific curiosity,the hope of new wealth or trading opportunities, missionary ardor and anti-slaveryzeal—the European explorers of Africa during the eighteenth and nineteenthcentury nonetheless form an extraordinary succession of individual braveryand visionary commitment. Many of the books and maps in which they recordedtheir quest remain both essential historical sources for African historyand very beautiful examples of contemporary book production and engraving.Some items, alas, after long years originally on the open shelves of acollege library, have been damaged or inappropriately repaired and nowneed professional conservation, but many are, at least internally, stillpristine.The last part of the exhibit, concerning Livingstone and Stanley, addsto the library's original collections some illustrated early editions recentlydonated by Dr. D. Strother Pope, along with his extensive collection ofmodern books on Africa, and includes brief reference to the literary legacyof African exploration in Joseph Conrad and Chinua Achebe.This exhibit covers a very wide range of materials and a broad historicalspan, and its preparation has correspondingly relied on help and advicefrom outside the department's staff. The planning of the exhibit, and reviewof available materials, was helped by Prof. Ronald Atkinson, of the Departmentof History, and Prof. Allen Bushong, of the Department of Geography, whoalso assisted with some of the reference literature in historical cartography.The department is grateful also for the interest in the exhibit shown bycolleagues in African Studies and African-American Studies. Roger Mortimerhelped identify early maps of Africa in Special Collections. David McQuillanand Ross Taylor of the Map Library made available older maps from theirholdings. Paul Schultz assisted in the mounting of the exhibit.[ Introduction ][ Island 1 | Island 2 | Island 3 | Island 4 | Island 5 | References ][ Return ]Updated April 22, 2005 by the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.Copyright © 1999, the University of South Carolina.URL: http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/sccoll/africa/africa.html
 

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