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Eyewitness Accounts The Source of the Nile - John Hanning Speke

Eyewitness Accounts The Source of the Nile

Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2015
Amberley Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4456-4423-3 (ISBN)
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Amberley’s new series of Eyewitness Accounts bring history, warfare, disaster, travel and exploration to life, written by the people who could say, ‘I was there!’
The source of the River Nile was one of the great mysteries of the Victorian age. On an expedition with Richard Burton which reached Lake Tanganyika, Speke went on alone to investigate rumours of the lake he would later name Victoria and proclaim the source of the Nile. This led to a furious dispute with Burton, and it was in the hope of proving his theory correct that Speke launched the expedition that he describes in this book.

One of the great journeys of Victorian exploration, Speke and his companion James Augustus Grant travelled from the island of Zanzibar inland to Lake Victoria and saw the Ripon Falls where the outfall from the lake flows north.

John Hanning Speke was an officer in the British Indian Army who made three exploratory expeditions to Africa and who is most associated with the search for the source of the Nile.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.5.2015
Reihe/Serie Eyewitness Accounts
Zusatzinfo 15 Illustrations
Verlagsort Chalford
Sprache englisch
Maße 124 x 198 mm
Gewicht 232 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Reisen Reiseberichte Afrika
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10 1-4456-4423-1 / 1445644231
ISBN-13 978-1-4456-4423-3 / 9781445644233
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