What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile

John Hanning Speke

Cambridge University Press, 2011

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In the 1850s John Hanning Speke made two expeditions to Africa, the first to Somalia inspiring the second to East Africa. This 1864 book presents his memoirs of both ventures, and his identification of Lake Victoria as the source of the White Nile, a claim verified only after his death.

ISBN-13
9781108031158
ISBN-10
1108031153
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2011
Publication date
2011-05-19
Pages
398
Dimensions
216x140x22
Weight
500