John Hanning Speke: 8 books

2 works of John Hanning Speke Officer in the British Indian Army (1827-1864) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of John Hanning Speke. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - The Discovery of the Source of the Nile - What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile

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Speke’s Journal is the classic travelogue by the British Army officer John Hanning Speke, that describes the daily trials and tribulations of his safari in search of the source of Africa’s Nile River. Despite being temporarily blinded and deafened, he returned with a memoir that describes...

What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke, officer in the British Indian Army (1827-1864) This ebook presents «What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile», from John Hanning Speke. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the...

John Hanning Speke was a man of thirty-six, when his Nile Journal appeared. He had entered the army in 1844, and completed ten years of service in India, serving through the Punjab Campaign. Already he had conceived the idea of exploring Africa, before his ten years were up, and on their conclusion he...

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...

In offering this short connected history of my first two explorations in Africa, I must state that I have been urged to do so by friends desirous of knowing what led to the discovery of the source of the Nile. The greater part of it was originally published in 'Blackwood's Magazine;' but that lacked...

In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa. If my account should not entirely harmonise with preconceived notions as to primitive races,...