Comments on: Review of Peter Chilson (Niger 1985-87) We Never Knew Exactly Where: Dispatches from the Lost Country of Mali http://peacecorpsworldwide.org/pc-writers/2013/01/27/review-of-peter/ All Peace Corps, all the time — book reviews, author interviews, essays, new books, scoops, resources for readers and writers. In other words — just what we've been doing with our newsletter RPCV Writers & Readers from 1989 to 1996, and our website Peace Corps Writers from 1997 to 2008! — John Coyne, editor; and Marian Haley Beil, publisher (both Ethiopia 1962–64) Wed, 22 May 2013 19:18:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Robert E. Hamilton http://peacecorpsworldwide.org/pc-writers/2013/01/27/review-of-peter/comment-page-1/#comment-1369 Robert E. Hamilton Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:27:32 +0000 http://peacecorpsworldwide.org/pc-writers/?p=8929#comment-1369 In reviewing Peter Chilson's book, I refer to the "intriguing title" but ascribed it incorrectly to Chilson being unsure of "exactly where" he was during a trip with guide Isaac Sagara. While true, the title actually derives from a quotation by Lord Salisbury: "We have been engaged in drawing lines upon maps where no white man’s foot ever trod; we have been giving away mountains and rivers and lakes to each other, only hindered by the small impediment that we never knew exactly where the mountains and rivers and lakes were." —Lord Salisbury, British prime minister, on Europe’s scramble for Africa, 1890 My apologies to Peter Chilson and I thank him for pointing out my misunderstanding. In reviewing Peter Chilson’s book, I refer to the “intriguing title” but ascribed it incorrectly to Chilson being unsure of “exactly where” he was during a trip with guide Isaac Sagara. While true, the title actually derives from a quotation by Lord Salisbury: “We have been engaged in drawing lines upon maps where
no white man’s foot ever trod; we have been giving away
mountains and rivers and lakes to each other, only hindered
by the small impediment that we never knew exactly where
the mountains and rivers and lakes were.”

—Lord Salisbury, British prime minister,
on Europe’s scramble for Africa, 1890

My apologies to Peter Chilson and I thank him for pointing out my misunderstanding.

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