“The Last African Explorer”
| Title | “The Last African Explorer” |
| Year for Search | 1879 |
| Authors | Jones, Eustace Hinton |
| Secondary Title | Hood’s Comic Annual for 1879. Thirty Pages of Illustrations By Eminent Artists Engraved By the Brothers Dalziel |
| Pagination | 59-63 |
| Date Published | 1879 |
| Publisher | Pub. by the Proprietors at the Fun Office |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | Satire on African exploration in which a man walks from London to Central Africa and comes across a eutopia. Government ministers are paid to think; other government officials are paid to propagandize and not think; murderers become army officers with those guilty of violent assaults forming the ranks; thieves are placed in the financial ministry or made tax collectors. Since no debt is recoverable by law, all transactions are in cash. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | (d. 1881) |
| Full Text | 1879 Jones, Eustace Hinton (d. 1881). “The Last African Explorer.” Hood’s Comic Annual for 1879. Thirty Pages of Illustrations By Eminent Artists Engraved By the Brothers Dalziel (London: Pub. by the Proprietors at the Fun Office, 1879), 59-63. PSt Satire on African exploration in which a man walks from London to Central Africa and comes across a eutopia. Government ministers are paid to think; other government officials are paid to propagandize and not think; murderers become army officers with those guilty of violent assaults forming the ranks; thieves are placed in the financial ministry or made tax collectors. Since no debt is recoverable by law, all transactions are in cash. |
