Heinrich Barth et l'Afrique (review)

(ProQuest: ... denotes non-US-ASCII text omitted.) Heinrich Barth is undoubtedly one of the greatest (if not the greatest) of the nineteenth-century European explorers of Africa. Barth is mentioned indeed in the general histories of European exploration of Africa, albeit in passing, but his travel account is never consulted seriously when the subject is 'European/Western encounters with Africa' - and the same applies to many other German and continental European explorers, too. There are many important questions and conclusions which are not limited to the personality of Barth only but concern the research in the history of European encounter and exploration of Africa in general.