Eyewitness Accounts The Source of the Nile

Eyewitness Accounts The Source of the Nile

John Hanning Speke
Our Price:  £3.99
List Price:  £8.99
Saving Of:  56%

Availability:  

  

In stock

Author:  John Hanning Speke
Condition:  New
Format:  Paperback
Pages:  320
Publisher:  Amberley Publishing
Year:  2015
ISBN:  9781445644233

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.

You may also like
Heaven is Real But So is Hell: An Eyewitness Account of What is to Come
Vassulen Ryden
Condition: New
£19.99   £9.99

In Heaven is Real But So is Hell, internationally reknowned speaker, author and mystic Vassula Ryden takes the reader into the supernatural world where she has experienced the hidden forces that affect every moment of our lives. It features her amazing encounters with both good and evil forces and reveals ...


A Nile Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries
Condition: New
£11.99   £3.99

The stretch of the longest river in the world that nurtured the world's first great civilization has drawn and impressed visitors since ancient times. The Greeks were fascinated by the mysterious annual flood of the Nile that brought both water and nourishing silt to the lands along its banks, while ...


The Religious Nile: Water, Ritual and Society Since Ancient Egypt
Terje Oestigaard
Condition: New
£105.93   £14.99

The Nile is arguably the most famous river in the world. For millennia, the search for its source defeated emperors and explorers. Yet the search for its source also contained a religious quest - a search for the origin of its divine and life-giving waters. Terje Oestigaard reveals how the beliefs associated ...