Reviews for Mauritius

The average rating for Mauritius based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-11-15 00:00:00 Mary Reder An interesting journey whose telling is burdened with a hefty cargo of the easy confidence of unchallenged racism and imperialism.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-03-27 00:00:00 Donald Meyer Chock full of ethnographical information about the Muslims of Somalia, Richard Burton's "First Footsteps in Africa" is a great look at a white man's first forays into that area of the continent. As an adventure novel, the book is kind of dry -- Burton essentially travels to an area, is held there by its leaders and observes the people before he is finally allowed to move on. I found the volumes to be okay-- but I'm sort of surprised they are ranked so highly on the "Greatest Adventure Books of All Time..." because there were plenty of other books that were just a lot more interesting.