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Re: Cinq semaines

From: Terry Harpold <tharpold~at~acm.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 09:15:19 -0400
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On Friday, July 11, 2003, Ian Thompson <ithompson~at~geog.gla.ac.uk> writes:

>Having just completed recuperation after hospital for the last few weeks I
>have had time to crawl back through previous pages of the Forum. Terry
>Harpold's query of 5th June interested me (re the authenticity of the names
>listed at the Royal Geographical Society toasting session). Checking in a
>history of African exploration text at least a third are well known
>explorers in the full sense, as opposed to travellers. The list also
>includes some missionaries, who were not necessarily explorers in a
>scientific sense...

Thanks, Ian! This is very useful.

Regards,

TH

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Terry Harpold
Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of Florida

tharpold~at~acm.org
tharpold~at~english.ufl.edu
http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/~tharpold
Received on Fri 11 Jul 2003 - 16:17:16 IDT

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