Panorama Diversity And Dynamics Of The Inland Niger Delta

1561 map of West Africa by Girolamo Ruscelli, from Italian translation of Ptolemy’s Atlas “La Geograpfia Di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino, Nouvamente Tradatta Di Greco in Italiano”. The author was attempting to square data gleaned from Portuguese commerce along the coast with Ptolemy’s world map. The mouths of the Senegal River and Gambia River are postulated...