Explorers into Africa Author:Josephine Kamm "The African explorers all had different personal motives for making their long, dangerous trips. However, one ambition was common to all of them--the honor and glory of filling the empty spaces on the African map. — "*Explorers into Africa* describes what is known of the Roman, Egyptian and Arab penetration of the interior of the continent. It s... more »hows how it was that traders and missionaries were the first to open up the ports and coastal areas as well as explore the Nile and Orange Rivers during the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."« less