Graaeniee 
am 19.05.12, 08:23:28
One of the ways I'm making that diittncsion in my chapter is that Carl Akeley, the guy who originally sold Roosevelt on the idea of an African safari, pretty much made it his life's work to combat what he referred to as "that horrible darkest Africa the public has accepted"). His book was even called "In Brightest Africa" and he tried to "tell that story" of "jungle peace ... so convincingly that the traditions of jungle horrors and impenetrable forests may be obliterated. As you say, both of them are clearly dreams of Africa having little or nothing empirically to do with any realities on the ground, however defined, but they are also very different dreams, and I think that difference is important. For Roosevelt, Africa is like the American Frontier, and a kind of new eden, whereas the darkest Africa thing is the other side of the christian mythology, a satanic hell.
