Search for the Nile's Source : The Ruined Reputation of John Petherick, Nineteenth-century Welsh Explorer
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0708326730
ISBN-13
9780708326732
Publisher
University of Wales Press
Imprint
University of Wales Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 30th, 2013
Print length
224 Pages
Weight
258 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 14.30 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Geographical discovery & exploration
Ksh 1,550.00
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In this book, John Humphries questions whether John Petherick was a slave trader or a victim of conspiracy on the Nile.
John Hanning Spekes 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.
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