Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
'No white man had ever traversed the country
before'
RIVER SHIRE AND LAKE NYASA, EAST AFRICA, 1859
This map, with its tracing cloth blotched by moisture and ink runs, was drawn in the African
interior. In a letter which accompanied the map the explorer David Livingstone described
conditions there as 'broiling hot' - 96°F in the shade - and he noted that 'the air seems sultry
