 Members of the "Romanian Geographic Society", they made keen and pertinent descriptions of the flora, fauna, geology and the people they encountered and compiled maps.The analogy of their adventures to the later ones of United States President Theodore Roosevelt and his son, Kermit Roosevelt, in East Africa, to much extent is striking.The first book about the Ghicas' African voyage, published in German and French in 1898 in Geneva, was "Cinq mois aux pays des Somalis", written by G. A. Schweinfuhrt, G. Volkens, and Nicolae D. Ghica.