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Description of Africa (Dapper book)
Dutch book from 1668 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Description of Africa (disambiguation).
Description of Africa (in the original archaic Dutch Naukeurige Beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche Gewesten, or "Accurate Descriptions of the African Regions")[lower-alpha 1] is a Dutch ethnographic book published in 1668 describing Africa. The work consists of detailed description of the parts of Africa known to Europeans in the mid-seventeenth century and was written by the geographer Olfert Dapper.
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