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Speke's Journal
Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
By John Hanning Speke
(1868; Dover, 1996)
Reviewed by Sean Redmond
The Journal of African Travel-Writing, Number 3, September 1997 (pp. 87-91).
© 1997 The Journal of African Travel-Writing
John Hanning Speke's career as an explorer began inauspiciously in 1855, when he and his commander, the swashbuckling Richard Burton, were nearly killed by marauders on the beaches of Somalia. Less than a decade later, and amidst a terri ...
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