European exploration of Africa 1840s, so that around the midpoint of the 19th century and the beginning of the colonial Scramble for Africa, the unexplored parts were now limited to what would turn out to be the Congo Basin and the African Great Lakes. This "Heart of Africa" remained one of the last remaining "blank spots" on world maps of the later 19th century (alongside the Arctic, Antarctic and the interior of the Amazon basin). It was left for 19th-century European explorers, including those searching for the famed sources of the Nile, notably John Hanning Speke, Sir Richard Burton, David Livingstone and Henry Morton
The Ship Who Searched series representing science fiction and modern convention in general. Einstein observes that 40 years later we have The essay serves as a call for reader-submitted stories that incorporate its values. Einstein concludes, The Ship Who Searched The Ship Who Searched is a science fiction novel by American writers Anne McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey. It is the third of seven books in "The Ship Who Sang" series by McCaffrey and four other authors, and the only one by Lackey. It was first published as a serial in the monthly "Amazing Stories", June to September, and as a paperback original by Baen