Trans African Highways - A Route Book Of The Main Trunk Roads In Africa - Unknown

Date Published: Originally 1949, this is the 4TH edition, 1958
Book in English NOT German.

Maps in pocket on front pastedown included, previous owner info on front free endpaper.   Moderate shelf wear, some wear marks to boards, light foxing to top text block edge, bumped top corners of boards, but  acceptable, heavy edge/corner wear, top of spine torn/chipped along edges, rub marks to verso panels, Dust wrapper in poor condition, front flap of dust jacket loose and inserted in Brodart protective book jacket cover. A 4cm tear in front middle right of DJ, edge wear and chips on all the folds as well as on the edges and spine. Some marks on front, spine and back cover, see photos.
A folded map is included. Inside, the contents are certain and competent. The pages are generally of clean and clear

Truck road routes throughout a continent on the brink of the independence years: from Cape to Cairo, to Lagos, to Khartoum, to Benghazi, to Gabon and beyond.
"This book, "Trans-African Highways", makes its appearance at a most opportune time, for, as a result of the war and of post-war development, a network of new and of greatly improved highways spreads over the whole of the African Continent. The result is that inter-territorial travel in Africa is developing apace, which travel is an important factor in knitting together the African states and in developing mutual understanding of local conditions and local problems.

During the war period the military significance of the network of highways, then in a very incomplete form, became apparent. Now that Africa is figuring so largely as one of the world food producing areas, the economic significance of its highways is even greater. By means of these highways a more highly co-ordinated transport service linking rail, water and air is becoming increasingly possible, and this book will contribute materially in this direction by indicating those roads which are most useful now or can be made useful to fit into the whole transportation system of the Continent.

For all of those interested in the major economic development, and for that ever increasing group of Trans-African motorists from all nations, this book will prove indispensable. It will stimulate even greater interest in travel in Africa. For these reasons all motorists, business or pleasure, owe the compilers a great debt of gratitude. This applies particularly to those of us in South Africa, at the most southern end of the continent, who must of necessity travel on these African Highways our only outlet by road to the north."

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