A handy introduction to European expeditions and exploration in Southern Africa (not just South Africa). These excerpts are compiled from the journals of those who undertook these journeys, mostly in the late Eighteenth and first half of the Nineteenth Centuries.
They present a world view that held for contemporary Europeans; and they give a hint of the fabulous wealth of African fauna before the onslaught of colonial concepts of progress and development.
The book is a short introduction to explorers that might kindle interest in a reader to delve further into the full accounts of these adventurous individuals.

A work of some importance given that it is based on a now-rejected worldview. Such books may not be important in themselves, but have value because they allow us insight into the views of an earlier part of our own age.