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Basil Davidson The Lost Cities of Alrica a. — = Revised Edition apie The Lost Cities of Africa Other books about Africa by Basil Davidson hies tory BLACK MOTHER: THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE THE AFRICAN PAST: CHRONICLES FROM ANTIQUITY TO MODERN TIMES GUIDE TO AFRICAN HISTORY THE GROWTH OF AFRICAN CIVILISATION: A HISTORY OF WEST AFRICA 1000-1800, with F. K. Buah EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA TO THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY, with J. E. F. Mhina AFRICA IN HISTORY: THEMES AND OUTLINES . THE AFRICAN GENIUS current ajfairs REPORT ON SOUTHERN AFRICA THE NEW WEST AFRICA, ed. with A. Ademola THE AFRICAN AWAKENING WHICH WAY AFRICA? THE SEARCH FOR A NEW SOCIETY THE LIBERATION OF GUINE: ASPECTS OF AN AFRICAN REVOLUTION fiction The Lost Cities of Africa BASIL DAVIDSON WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS REVISED EDITION little, brown and company boston /toronto COPYRIGHT, ©, 1959, 1970, RENEWED 1987 BY BASIL DAVIDSON ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO PART OF THIS BOOK MAY BE REPRO- DUCED IN ANY FORM OR BY ANY ELECTRONIC OR MECHANICAL MEANS INCLUDING INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYS- TEMS WITHOUT PERMISSION IN WRITING FROM THE PUBLISHER, EXCEPT BY A REVIEWER WHO MAY QUOTE BRIEF PASSAGES IN A REVIEW, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NO. 70-126061 For copies of rock engravings at Tondia I am indebted to M. Raymond Mauny, Director of Archaeology at the Institut de L’Afrique Noire, Dakar, who made them and has generously allowed me to reproduce them. I am indebted to Dr. Gertrude Caton-Thompson and the Clar- endon Press for permission to reproduce the drawing of stone steps at Great Zimbabwe. BP PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA fo Gervase Mathew and Thomas H odgkin And when some thoughtful spirit in the future shall wish to write this history as it should be written, may this work in some fashion serve him, rough and disordered though it be. GIOVANNI-BATTISTA RAMUSIO IN 1550 If a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in cer- tainties. FRANCIS BACON
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