Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure

Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure by Tim Jeal

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ed. The Search for the Source of the Nile: Correspondence between Captain Richard Burton, Captain John Speke and Others, from … the Collection of Quentin Keynes Esq. (1999)
Yule, H. and Hyndman, H. M. Mr Henry Morton Stanley and the Royal Geographical Society: being the Record of a Protest (1878)
Zulfo, I. H. (translated Clark, P.) Karari: The Sudanese Account of the Battle of Omdurman (1980)

David Livingstone in 1866 before his last departure from Britain.
     

    Richard Burton posing in Arab clothes in 1865, a year after Speke’s death.
     

    Richard Burton in his tent in Somaliland.
     

    John Hanning Speke as a young officer in India.
     

    Speke before his great journey.
     

    Speke’s memorial in Kensington Gardens.
     

    Samuel Baker in his African hunting attire.
     

    Florence von Sass before her marriage to Samuel Baker.
     

    The Royal Geographical Society outing during the meeting of the British Association in Bath, 1864. Livingstone is standing left of centre, wearing his distinctive cap. Further right is Sir Roderick Murchison in a white suit.
     

    Henry Stanley aged twenty-eight, two years before he ‘found’ Dr Livingstone.
     

    Livingstone’s servants Chuma and Susi.
     

    Some of Stanley’s principal Wangwana carriers on his great trans-Africa journey.
     

    Karl Peters, the German explorer and imperialist.
     

    Princess Salme, sister of the Sultan of Zanzibar.
     

    Captain T. M. S. Pasley RN , who rescued Princess Salme.
     

    James S. Jameson, who sketched a girl being killed, cooked and eaten.
     

    Major Edmund Barttelot, who flogged men to death and was murdered.
     

    Stanley (aged forty-six) and Anthony Swinburne, his young station chief at Kinshasa, who saved the Congo for Leopold II of Belgium.
     

    Captain Frederick Lugard soon after claiming Uganda for Britain.
     

    Kabarega of Bunyoro in old age. He died while returning to his country after twenty-four years of exile.
     

    Henry Stanley in 1892 with his close friend Sir William Mackinnon, whose Imperial British East Africa company financed Britain’s early presence in Uganda.
     

    Major-General Sir Horatio Kitchener at the time of the battle of Omdurman.
     

    Marchand’s emissaries approach Kitchener’s ship.
     

    Commandant Marchand claimed Fashoda on the Nile for France.
     

    Sir Harold MacMichael, Britain’s top civil servant in Sudan 1926-33. He ignored the people of southern Sudan with dire consequences for the future.
     

A fifteenth-century reconstruction of Ptolemy’s second-century world map. The White Nile is shown originating from twin sources close to a mountain range. ( See pp. 25-6 )
     

    Richard Burton depicted as an Afghan peddler in his wife’s posthumously published biography of him.
     

    John Speke and James Grant at Mutesa’s court.
     

    A naked Mutesa drawn by Speke.
     

    Speke portrayed standing at the Ripon Falls source.
     

    African birds drawn by Speke.
     

    Samuel Baker and Florence von Sass in a storm on Lake Albert.
     

    Obbo warriors perform a war dance, as sketched by Samuel Baker.
     

    Baker’s sketch of himself in danger of being trampled by an elephant.
     

    James Gordon Bennett Jr, editor of the New York Herald , who was persuaded by Henry Stanley to send him to find Livingstone.
     

    Hats worn by Livingstone and Stanley at the time of their meeting.
     

    The Makata swamp crossed by Stanley.
     

    Stanley watches a phalanx dance by Chief Mazamboni’s warriors.
     

    Livingstone’s remains being carried to the coast by his men.
     

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