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F. H. Hawkins

A London Missionary Society leader and traveler, he wrote vivid first-hand accounts of a long journey through Africa and Madagascar in the early 1900s. His work blends travel writing, missionary history, and snapshots of places and communities in a time of major change.

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Through lands that were dark Being a record of a year's missionary journey in Africa and Madagascar

Through lands that were dark Being a record of a year's missionary journey in Africa and Madagascar

by F. H. Hawkins

About the author

Known in print as F. H. Hawkins, he is identified in surviving book records as Frank H. Hawkins. His best-known work, Through Lands That Were Dark (1914), records a year-long missionary journey in Africa and Madagascar and was published by the London Missionary Society.

The book presents him as LL.B. and Foreign Secretary of the London Missionary Society for Africa, China and Madagascar, suggesting that he wrote not only as an observer but as someone deeply involved in missionary administration and travel. His writing is straightforward and descriptive, with a strong interest in the people, churches, and landscapes he encountered.

Reliable online sources confirm the book and his connection to the society, but they offer only limited biographical detail beyond that. A page reproducing the work lists him as 1863–1936, though fuller life information is not easy to verify from major standard reference sources.