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Originally Posted by JTS
I don't have the book, but I can understand this complaint. I think, though, that it is possible that the campaign is left that way since that's largely the way that Solomon Kane had his adventures in the stories. It's been a while since I read the storied, but I can only think of one recurring character (besides Kane of course) right offhand. Generally, the stories were rapid moving yarns that weren't in media res, but they sure didn't take long to get there.
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I think you're quite right there. The campaign does feel appropriate for the source material. If Howard had wanted to link some Solomon Kane stories together, he might very well have done something similar. For an RPG campaign however, I think it is lacking.
In my review, I didn't want to be overly critical of the campaign, though I did think it was important to describe it as I saw it.
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Also, just as devil's advocate, it may be that the left the gazetteer vague to reflect the mystery of both the stories and the general mindset of the time. The Dark Continent of Africa really was uncharted territory.
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Another fair point. I took the gazetteer sections to be merely introductions and took the location descriptions, functioning as examples, to be the more useful parts of the description of the world of Kane.