Download or read book To the Mountains of the Moon written by J. E. S. Moore and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from To the Mountains of the Moon: Being an Account of the Modern Aspect of Central Africa and of Some Little Known Regions Traversed by the Tanganyika Expedition, in 1899 and 1900 But besides this, the serious pursuit of whelks led me of necessity over some areas in the centre of the Continent which had never been visited before, and I had therefore, when I returned, a mass of geographical and descriptive material which had nothing to do directly with the Tanganyika problem, but which was by no means without interest in itself and lastly, there are certain results of the scientific investigations which are without technicality, and yet are at the same time of general interest, because, as I have explained in the first chapter, they completely change our views respecting the past history of this portion of the earth. On this account I. 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.