West Africa the Elusive (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from West Africa the Elusive Books of travel may be divided into two categories: those which describe what their writers are meant to see, and consequently paint everything "couleur de rose," and those which are framed on critical lines. The latter, if moderate and just, should be of practical benefit to the countries concerned, though, as a rule, their authors are not popular with all portions of the community. I have tried in this book on West Africa to balance the scales, and it has not been easy. When one is, so to speak, a semi-official guest, it seems to savour of ingratitude to comment adversely on matters which attract one´s attention. Yet what was the object of my mission? I was sent by the Daily Telegraph, most certainly not for a pleasure trip, but to describe West Africa of to-day frankly and fearlessly, in order that this crowded old England might decide whether the rather neglected West African colonies had openings of which the coming generation might avail itself. Obviously, gilding the pill would be an outrage upon those who, troubling to read what was written, felt drawn to take the plunge only to discover the discrepancy between fiction and fact. This is the worst propaganda conceivable. The patent line of action to follow, therefore, is to point out where abuses exist and show how they might be remedied, and I do venture to suggest that the outsider, although he be a mere layman can sometimes grasp the flaw in a system, administrative, or mercantile, more quickly than those actually concerned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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