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Harry Hamilton Johnston è stato un esploratore britannico.

Nel 1883 si recò in Congo per poi raggiungere il Kilimangiaro. Fu successivamente nominato console in Camerun; tentò invano di unificare i domini africani britannici. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. Giugno 1858 – 31. Luglio 1927
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Harry Johnston: Frasi in inglese

“In our land the educated poor, who at the most can only cycle or take short railway journeys into the country from an adjoining town, are fast losing their rightful heritage — the beauty of the country-side, which is rapidly disappearing with very little benefit to anyone. Apparently nobody but a few timid adherents of the Archeological Society cares a straw.”

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As quoted in "Gleanings" by Mary V. Fuller, in The American City, Vol. I, No. 3 (November 1903)

“It is the first rational exposition of the relations of mankind to the mystery which shrouds the how and wherefore of man's existence, the first honest protest against our long, long martyrdom.”

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Comments on The Martyrdom of Man (1872) by William Winwood Reade, in Liberia (1906), Vol. 1, p. 257

“Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable.”

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Pioneers in Canada (1912) http://www.fullbooks.com/Pioneers-in-Canada1.html

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