GARENGANZE

With twenty illustrations. Red pictorial cloth covers, 276 pages. Folding map at rear. A copy in near fine condition.

A scarce and classic work of Victorian area discovery and exploration during the opening of Africa. “This is the story of seven years of pioneer mission work in the heart of the Dark Continent... and it is a story of strictly pioneer work, for he undertook to cross the continent by foot. The journey was undertaken in an apostolic spirit.

Frederick Stanley Arnot (12 September 1858 – 14 May 1914) was a British missionary who did much to establish Christian missions in what are now Angola, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Arnot had become well-known from reports of his travels and work. In London he was invited to read a paper on the source of the Zambezi to the Royal Geographical Society, and he was made a fellow of this society. Arnot continued to organise missionaries, both male and female, over the next decade, establishing a string of missions from the Atlantic coast in Angola to Garenganze. Maintaining these posts involved delicate arrangements with the Belgian and Portuguese colonial authorities and with the local African traders and chiefs. (wikipedia)