Books: Three on Africa

OVER AFRICAN JUNGLES-Martin John-son-Harcourt, Brace ($3.75). SPEAK TO THE EARTH-Vivienne de Watteville-Smith & Haas ($3). AFRICA DANCES -Gorer-Knopf ($3.50).

The Africa that became familiar to readers of the reminiscences of Trader Horn was an eerie land where white goddesses lived in clean captivity and where fortunes could be picked up in almost any stretch of impenetrable jungle. Last week three substantial volumes of African travel suggested that future romancers will be compelled to place their tales on still more remote continents to make them acceptable, for all three books present a flesh &...

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