Search for the Nile's Source: The Ruined Reputation of John Petherick, Nineteenth-Century Welsh Explorer

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John Hanning Speke's discovery of Lake Victoria in 1858 while on a quest to find the source of the Nile elevated him to the pantheon of heroes of African exploration, alongside David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley. But historians have ignored the part played by the Welsh mining engineer John Petherick in the discovery, largely because Speke branded him a slave trader. In this first biography of Petherick, John Humphries explores whether Petherick...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0708326730

ISBN13:9780708326732

Release Date:February 2014

Publisher:University of Wales Press

Length:178 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.4" x 8.3"

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Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Travel

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Search for the Nile's Source: The Ruined Reputation of John Petherick, Nineteenth-Century Welsh Explorer

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