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Search for the Nile's Source
- The Ruined Reputation of John Petherick, Nineteenth-century Welsh Explorer
Engelsk Paperback
Search for the Nile's Source
- The Ruined Reputation of John Petherick, Nineteenth-century Welsh Explorer
Engelsk Paperback

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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 was truly a rogue, as he is often portrayed, or the victim of a conspiracy that destroyed his reputation and denied him credit for one of the greatest feats in African exploration.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9780708326732
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0708326730
Udg. Dato:
30 sep 2013
Længde:
15mm
Bredde:
143mm
Højde:
217mm
Forlag:
University of Wales Press
Oplagsdato:
30 sep 2013
Forfatter(e):
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