1. John Hanning Speke One of the most celebrated books of african exploration was redrafted and slanted politically by a ghost writer original texts of the explorer john hanning speke's Journal of the http://www.ntz.info/gen/n00945.html

Home Sources Names Dates ... Feedback John Hanning Speke Name ID 945 1856 Speke, John Hanning Map and Guide to Tanzania - page 04b Page Number: 04b Extract Date: See also Richard Francis Burton John Hanning Speke Lake Ukerewe Lake Victoria In the British Royal Geographical Society commissioned Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke to look for the sources of the Nile; during their expeditions they found Lake Ukerewe in which was renamed, after the Queen, Victoria Nyanza and continuing westwards via Tabora they reached Ujiji and found Lake Tanganyika. [top] Home Sources Names ... Feedback Extract ID: 4005 1863 Speke, John Hanning Ezard, John Key text on Africa was slanted by publisher Extract Date: 13 Aug 2001 link See also John Blackwood John Hill Burton John Ezard 13 Aug 2001 David Finkelstein 13 Aug 2001 John Hanning Speke Key text on Africa was slanted by publisher Ghost writer amended journal of Victorian explorer to project 'dark continent' image and promote imperial ambitions One of the most celebrated books of African exploration was redrafted and slanted politically by a ghost writer to promote a view of a "dark continent" desperately in need of colonisation, a study of the manuscripts has disclosed. This rewriting drastically changed the original texts of the explorer John Hanning Speke 's Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, according to a comparison of the drafts. Black people were described as urgently needing Christianity and European government.

2. Speke's Journal, Reviewed By Sean Redmond john hanning speke's career as an explorer began inauspiciously in 1855 Dover, offersa selfportrait of speke during the into the heart of the african continent http://www.unc.edu/~ottotwo/Spekereview.html

Speke's Journal Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile By John Hanning Speke (1868; Dover, 1996) Reviewed by Sean Redmond The Journal of African Travel-Writing Number 3 , September 1997 (pp. 87-91). © 1997 The Journal of African Travel-Writing J ohn Hanning Speke's career as an explorer began inauspiciously in 1855, when he and his commander, the swashbuckling Richard Burton, were nearly killed by marauders on the beaches of Somalia. Less than a decade later, and amidst a terrible public battle with Burton over the source of the Nile, Speke lay dead, the accidental or suicidal victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. However, for a few short years in between, he was held by most to be one of the greatest European explorers of Africa and one of the bravest sons of England. In a history dominated by Burton's prolific writings, the Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile , now reprinted by Dover, offers a self-portrait of Speke during the pinnacle of his brief careerhis own three-year voyage into the heart of the African continent. In a spirit of goodwill and recompense for what Speke had suffered, Burton invited him on the second expedition to central Africa. Speke had planned to go shooting in the Caucasus, but he and Burton set out in June 1857 to investigate the truth about the Tanganyika, a reportedly huge lake in central Africa and perhaps the long-sought source of the Nile. This expedition, which lasted until the spring of 1859 and is described by Burton in

3. Speke, Capt. John Hanning, JOURNAL OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE NILE speke, Capt. john hanning JOURNAL OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE NILE London William Blackwood LANDMARK WORK OF african EXPLORATION FROM THE FIRST explorer TO DISCOVER ONE http://biblioserv2.bibliophile-international.net/bud/16935.html

Buddenbrooks, Inc. Speke's Discovery the Source of the Nile - 1863 A Seminal Work in Exploration Original Cloth - First Edition Speke, Capt. John Hanning JOURNAL OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE NILE London William Blackwood and Sons 1863 First edition. Illustrated with 76 black and white plates, including a frontispiece of the author, and 2 maps, one folding. Thick 8vo, publisher's original sienna cloth lettered and bordered in gilt on the spine, with a gilt vignette on the upper cover, all covers bordered in blind. xxxi, 658 (including appendix), [34 ads]. A very nice copy with some mellowing and spotting to the cloth, internally very fresh, clean, and bright, rear endpaper with some expert refreshment along the hinge. THE SCARCE LANDMARK WORK OF AFRICAN EXPLORATION FROM THE FIRST EXPLORER TO DISCOVER ONE OF THE MAJOR SOURCES OF THE NILE. After an expedition into eastern Africa in the company of Sir Richard Burton, Speke returned to England to announce his hypothesis that the Nile issued from Lake Victoria Nyanza. However, his fellow geographers, including Burton, were skeptical of this claim. Under the sponsorship of Sir Roderick Murchison, President of the Royal Geographical Society, Speke went back to Africa and Lake Victoria Nyanza, and when he returned home he claimed that this time he had found conclusive evidence that the lake was indeed the source of the great river. His claims, however, were still widely disputed. In 1864, Burton and James McQueen published jointly THE NILE BASIN which firmly disagreed with Speke's conclusions. Speke and Burton planned a debate on the issue, but the day prior to the meeting Speke was killed in an untimely hunting accident. His work remains a landmark in Africana literature and an enjoyable reading adventure.

4. National Portrait Gallery | NPG Around The Country | Bodelwyddan Castle | Stairc john hanning speke 18271864 african explorer; discovered source of the Nileby Louis Gardie 1864 plaster cast of bust 32 1/4 in. (819 mm) NPG 1739. http://www.npg.org.uk/live/bodstrp.asp

You are in National Portrait Gallery NPG around the country Bodelwyddan Castle Staircase Hall and Staircase BODELWYDDAN CASTLE Staircase Hall and Staircase Portraits on display Above the fireplace hangs Sir David Wilkie's sketch of William IV , but the portraits here are mostly on the theme of exploration. They include such great Victorian heroes as David Livingstone and John Hanning Speke and also two fascinating group portraits. Stephen Pearce's The Arctic Council of 1851 represents the sailors and explorers who conducted successive searches for the missing Arctic expedition of 1845 led by Sir John Franklin. A Consultation Prior to the Aerial Voyage to Weilburgh by John Hollins, on the other hand, records the successful journey in a balloon of November 1836 from London to the Netherlands. Sir James Brooke Rajah of Sarawak by Thomas Woolner marble bust 27 in. (686 mm) NPG 1426 Grace Darling Heroine of a sea rescue by David Dunbar marble bust 25 in. (635 mm)

5. Exploring Africa - Island 5 and discoverer of Lake Tanganyika; john hanning speke (18271864 with his wife, setout on speke's suggestion to became the popular idea of an african explorer. http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/sccoll/africa/africa5.html

Exploring Africa Island 5: Central and East Africa, and the Legacy of Exploration David Livingstone, 1813-1873 Missionary travels and researches in South Africa; including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda, on the west coast; thence across the continent, down the river Zambesi, to the eastern ocean. . . . With portrait; maps by Arrowsmith; and numerous illustrations London: John Murray, 1857. Heraldic bookplate of William Edwards. The most famous of the Victorian African explorers, David Livingstone, a shopkeeper's son from Blantyre, Scotland, had qualified in medicine from Glasgow University and sailed for southern Africa with the London Missionary Society in 1840. Over the next years, he steadily pushed his base northward into central Africa, until in 1851 he reached the Zambesi. Sending his wife and family home, he set out on an extraordinary series of travels through what was still Arab slave-trading territory, until he eventually marched his porters down the Zambesi valley towards the east coast, and in 1855 discovered the Falls of Shongwe, illustrated here; these he admiringly described as seeming to "exceed in size the falls of the Clyde at Stonebyres," and renamed in honor of the British queen. Sir Samuel White Baker, 1821-1893

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Go to: Guardian Unlimited home UK news World news Archive search Arts Books Business EducationGuardian.co.uk Film Football Jobs Life MediaGuardian.co.uk Money The Observer Online Politics Shopping SocietyGuardian.co.uk Sport Talk Travel Audio Email services Special reports The Guardian The weblog The informer The northerner The wrap Advertising guide Crossword Dating Headline service Syndication services Events / offers Help / contacts Information Newsroom Style guide Travel offers TV listings Weather Web guides Guardian Weekly Money Observer Home Guardian Review By genre Reviews ... Help Search this site Tools Text-only version Send it to a friend Read it later See saved stories In this section Is Sewell an Orwellian nightmare? Wheen wins Orwell prize Middlesex bags Pulitzer prize for fiction The world of books: Apr 6 ... Critical eye: Apr 5 Key text on Africa was slanted by publisher Ghost writer amended journal of Victorian explorer to project 'dark continent' image and promote imperial ambitions John Ezard Monday August 13, 2001 The Guardian One of the most celebrated books of African exploration was redrafted and slanted politically by a ghost writer to promote a view of a "dark continent" desperately in need of colonisation, a study of the manuscripts has disclosed. This rewriting drastically changed the original texts of the explorer John Hanning Speke's Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, according to a comparison of the drafts. Black people were described as urgently needing Christianity and European government.

7. Africa writers had mentioned an important african river called James Bruce, a Scottish explorer,reached the Richard Francis Burton and john hanning speke began to http://www2.worldbook.com/features/explorers/html/saga_africa.html

North America The Pacific Ocean and Australia Africa Stanley and Livingstone Other explorers of Africa ... The Arctic and Antarctic Africa By the late 1700's, Europeans were familiar with the coasts of Africa, but the interior of the continent remained a mystery to them. Penetration of the interior was difficult because of the harsh terrain in many places and the presence of deadly diseases, such as malaria and dysentery. Despite these obstacles, Europeans explored most of Africa south of the Sahara during the late 1700's and the 1800's. During the late 1800's, exploration was combined with conquest, and Europeans became the rulers of most of the African continent. During the late 1700's and early 1800's, European explorers tried to solve a mystery that had puzzled geographers for centuries. Ancient writers had mentioned an important African river called the Niger. But they had not known where the river began, in what direction it flowed, and where it ended. In 1796, Mungo Park, a Scottish explorer, reached the Niger near Segou, in what is now Mali. He determined that it flows from west to east. In 1830, Richard Lemon Lander, a British explorer, sailed down the Niger to its mouth in the Gulf of Guinea. During the 1820's, Alexander Gordon Laing, a Scottish explorer, and Rene Caillie (ruh NAY cah YAY), a Frenchman, separately visited the city of Timbuktu, near the Niger in Mali.

8. Other Explorers Of Africa In 1858, Burton and fellow explorer john hanning speke became the 18621900), wasa British explorer, traveler, and Africa (1897) and West african Studies (1899 http://www2.worldbook.com/features/explorers/html/saga_oea.html

North America The Pacific Ocean and Australia Africa ... Livingstone Other explorers of Africa The Arctic and Antarctic Other explorers of Africa Click on the links below to read about other explorers of Africa. Sir Samuel White Baker Sir Richard Francis Burton Mary Henrietta Kingsley Mungo Park Sir Samuel White Baker Sir Samuel White Baker (1821-1893), was an English explorer of Africa. He became known as an expert on Egypt and Sudan chiefly through his two books, The Albert N'yanza, Great Basin of the Nile (1866) and The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia (1867). He also wrote popular books on hunting and nature. Baker was born in London. During the late 1850's and early 1860's, he and Florence von Sass, whom he later married, explored the region of the White Nile, the Blue Nile, and the Atbara River in Africa. On March 14, 1864, Baker and his party found a great lake. The lake, which he named Albert Nyanza (now also called Lake Albert), lies between Uganda and Congo (Kinshasa) and is an important source of the Nile River. Baker was knighted in 1866. In 1869, Ismail Pasha, the ruler of Egypt, appointed him as governor general of Sudan, which was then controlled by Egypt. Ismail told Baker to eliminate the slave trade. Baker added new territory in Sudan for Egypt and defeated some prominent slave traders but failed to stop the slave trade. He returned to England in 1873.

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More about Uganda, the Pearl of Africa... INTRODUCTION LAND AND RESOURCES PEOPLE AND SOCIETY ARTS ... GOVERNMENT HISTORY Precolonial Kingdoms European Influence British Protectorate Independence ... Museveni's Uganda VII. HISTORY The earliest inhabitants of Uganda were hunters and gatherers who lived more than 50,000 years ago and whose stone axes have been found near the villages of Mweya and Kagera in the southwest and at Paraa in the northwest. Their descendants retreated to the mountains between 2,500 and 3,000 years ago when Bantu-speaking farmers moved into forested areas and cleared the land for crops. Iron smelting by Bantu-speaking cultures has been dated from 2,500 years ago, and Bantu pottery from 1,500 years ago. Bantu-speakers near the shores of Lake Victoria developed the banana as a staple food about 1,000 years ago. Between 600 and 700 years ago the Chwezi, a Bantu subgroup, established settlements at Bigo in western Uganda. The Chwezi were depicted in legends as supernatural, but probably were the ancestors of the region's present-day Hima and Tutsi herders. A. Precolonial Kingdoms (

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11. ZooGoer: Speke's Gazelle john hanning speke (18271864) was a British explorer most famousand Nile wasn'tthe only legacy speke left. on the names of several East african animals he http://www.fonz.org/zoogoer/zg1997/zgspekes.htm

AT THE ZOO: The Snorting Gazelle by Debra Solomon John Hanning Speke (1827-1864) was a British explorer most famousand infamousfor his lifelong quest to find the source of the Nile. In 1858, Speke declared East Africa's Lake Victoria the Nile's source and returned to England a heroonly to find that his colleague and fellow explorer Sir Richard Burton challenged his claim. On the day Speke and Burton were to debate the issue in public, however, Speke died while hunting, apparently killed by his own gun. In spite of the cloud surrounding Speke's claim, his discovery was quickly confirmed after his death. But finding the source of the Nile wasn't the only legacy Speke left. He also left his mark on the names of several East African animals he was first to describe to the West, including Speke's weaver, a small bird, and Speke's gundi, a rodent. One of Speke's most graceful "finds" was Speke's gazelle, four of which recently arrived at the National Zoo, where they now live at the Cheetah Conservation Station. Small and delicate, Speke's gazelles are brown, dog-sized antelope with white patches around the bases of their tails and on the backs of their thighs. They are found in the wild on the dry open plains of Somalia and Ethiopia. Adapted to a desert climate, they feed in the morning and evening, when leaves hold the most moisture, and lie around during the hottest times of the day, conserving precious water.

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Home Publications Zoogoer Focus on Science Weekend Saki monkey born in the Small Mammal House What Primates Think What's Ailing Asia's Vultures All at Sea in a Wild Wales National Zoo Accreditation In this Issue Who's Watching the Kids? Surf, Turf, and Eggs At the Zoo: The Snorting Gazelle From the Front Lines of the Rhino Wars ... ZooGoer Related Resources African Savanna Join FONZ to receive ZooGoer in your mailbox! At the Zoo: The Snorting Gazelle by Debra Solomon John Hanning Speke (1827-1864) was a British explorer most famousand infamousfor his lifelong quest to find the source of the Nile. In 1858, Speke declared East Africa's Lake Victoria the Nile's source and returned to England a heroonly to find that his colleague and fellow explorer Sir Richard Burton challenged his claim. On the day Speke and Burton were to debate the issue in public, however, Speke died while hunting, apparently killed by his own gun. In spite of the cloud surrounding Speke's claim, his discovery was quickly confirmed after his death. But finding the source of the Nile wasn't the only legacy Speke left. He also left his mark on the names of several East African animals he was first to describe to the West, including Speke's weaver, a small bird, and Speke's gundi, a rodent.

13. Channel 4 Television - To The ENDS Of The EARTH of the Victorian era an author, explorer, scientist and speke, Burton never ledanother african expedition. john hanning speke (1827-64) Born at Ilminster in http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/E/ends/nile4.html

document.c4Category = ""; document.c4Module = ""; Text Only FilmFour.com attheraces 4car.co.uk ... FILM Richard Burton John Speke Richard Francis Burton (1821-90) The son of a colonel, Burton was born in Torquay and had an irregular education - in France and Italy and at Oxford, from which he was expelled. From 1842, he served for seven years in the Indian Army, first in Sind (now in south-east Pakistan) under Sir Charles Napier. In 1853, he made a pilgrimage to Mecca, disguised in Afghani dress, becoming one of the first Europeans to visit the holy Muslim city. He later also 'discovered' the sacred city of Harar in Ethiopia and, in 1855, led a foray into Somalia, accompanied by Speke. Just before he left England for his search for the source of the Nile, he became engaged to Isabel Arundell, who as his wife would be his greatest defender. At the age of 36, at the time of the expedition with Speke, Burton was one of the great minds and most remarkable personalities of the Victorian era - an author, explorer, scientist and poet. A brilliant linguist, he mastered over 30 languages, including Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hindi and Swahili. He wrote 43 books, translated the Arabian Nights, The Perfumed Garden

14. Africa Bibliography speke, john hanning Go To Project GutenbergThe Discovery of the Source of the Nile M'Queen,it is valuable to us as a type of the Victorian african explorer. http://members.tripod.com/~HistoricalNovelists/africa.htm

Africa Bibliography all periods Gross geography often has nothing to do with cultural lines. That is, the fact that Africa can be easily delimited as a continent by the Suez canal does not mean that it does not consist of several cultural or even racial zones at different epochs. Especially, up until about 600 CE Northern Africa was racially as well as culturally distinct from Sub-Saharan (black) Africa. While there was a Nubian conquest of Egypt, it was fairly short lived, temporarily replaced but did not breed out the uppermost classes, and the Egyptians remained a Semitic rather than Negroid people. Remarks about "Cleopatra being black" are simply silly, since she wasn't even Egyptian, but Macedonian Greek of an inbred royal line, with a narrow, prominently bridged nose. The Tuaregs still show the strongly Europid background of the Libyans and Numidians, who absorbed the Vandals as well. This is primarily a bibliography for Sub-Saharan Africa, which had often more contact with Arabia or India than with its own northern shore. While it will include the Tuareg and the Meroitic Empire, you will have to go to other bibliographies for the earlier peoples of North Africa. Search for Books at barnesandnoble.com

15. Alexandrine Pieternella Francoise Tinne She planned to meet British explorer john hanning speke, who was again failing tomeet up with speke, she headed She resumed her african explorations in 1869 http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/tinne.html

Distinguished Women of Past and Present First Page Name Index Subject Index Related Sites ... Search Special thanks to the Microsoft Corporation for their contribution to this site. The following information came from Microsoft Encarta Alexandrine Pieternella Francoise Tinne Contributed by: Alan Wexler "Tinne, Alexandrine Pieternella Francoise" Microsoft(R) Encarta

16. Africa | Basic Facts > History > Early European Imperialism first whites to explore the african interior The German explorer Heinrich Barth travelledwidely in The British explorers john hanning speke and James Augustus http://www.geocities.com/aboutafrica/history/earlyeuropeanimperialism-3.html

Northern Africa Western Africa Eastern Africa Central Africa ... Patterns of Economic Development Advertisement History Early European Imperialism Page 3 of 4 South Africa Although the Portuguese largely ignored southern Africa, their rivals, the Dutch, beginning in 1652, developed the area as a way station to the East Indies. For a short period, colonists were encouraged to settle around Cape Town, and soon a new culture and people, the Boers, or Afrikaners, began to develop. Despite British government opposition, they began to move inland in search of better land and, after 1815, to escape British control. As they trekked inland, they encountered the Zulu and other Bantu peoples expanding southwards. The result was a series of land wars. During the course of their migrations, the Boers were among the first whites to explore the African interior. European Politics Page 3 of 4 Source of information [ Home Search Site Index Link to Us Design [DreamWeb Team] Advertisement Biography of Nelson Mandela Western Africa

17. Kenyalogy: General Info: History: The Mountains Of The Moon Until this golden age of african exploration was fully of God rather than an explorer,since the his friend and exploration mate john hanning speke (18271864 http://www.kenyalogy.com/eng/info/histo6.html

Geography History Climate and vegetation Economy Population and culture Useful facts ... General info History: The Mountains of the Moon The "Cradle of Mankind" (4,400,000 B.C.-50,000 B.C.) The first migrations (50,000 B.C.-500 A.D.) The Swahili coast (500-1498) The Portuguese Empire (1498-1698) ... The Omani domination (1698-1856) The Mountains of the Moon (1844-1889) The inland peoples (500-1889) The exploration of Kenya (1883-1892) The partition of East Africa (1856-1891) The Protectorates and the ... Kenya today The Mountains of the Moon (1844-1889) The beginning of the colonial era in East Africa is not clear cut. The region started to fall under British influence since the first alliances of the Muscat sultanate with England, reinforced afterwards by Seyyid Said and prolonged during the Zanzibar sultanate. Apart from that ephemeral first British protectorate from 1824 to 1826, the European powers cultured their commercial relationships with the sultan. Both England and France attempted to dominate the trading routes with Asia. Since the Suez channel project was envisioned and forecasted to be the major highway for this trade, locating the Nile source meant controlling the river, and hence, the channel, reason why Uganda became a paramount objective. The channel would be opened in 1869 under French control, but in 1881 England would acquire most of the shares from an Egyptian citizen. These economic and political interests found their counterpart in others, less tangible. For some, the exploration of Africa also posed personal challenges, being of epic or religious nature. Pioneers over all pioneers, the first Europeans to penetrate the unexplored inner lands of East Africa were two German missionaries serving the

18. Asia Bookroom: Africa SHARP, J. ALFRED. David Livingstone. Missionary and explorer. SUIDAFRIKAANSE ARGIEFSTUKKE.South african Archival Records. Transvaal No. speke, john hanning. http://www.oldbookroom.com/currentlists_xAfrMidAusPac/afr_7.htm

Asia Bookroom specialises in out-of-print, antiquarian and secondhand books on Asia, Africa and the Middle East . We regularly issue lists on Asia, the Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. We also issue lists on Australia and a general antiquarian list more occasionally. These lists are available by email, on our web site and periodically in hard copy format. Our shopping cart on this site supports secure ordering. Africa LEVTZION, NEHEMIA. Muslims and Chiefs in West Africa. A Study of Islam in the Middle Volta Basin in the Pre-Colonial Period. xxvi + 228pp, notes, bibliography, index, good copy in protected dustjacket. Clarendon. Oxford. 1968. A study of the peaceful penetration of Islam into the area now covered by northern Ghana. (ISBN ). AU$55.00 [Please quote ID:54226 when referring to this item] LEWIS, B.A. The Murle. Red Chiefs and Black Commoners. xiii + 166pp, appendices, index, very good copy in dustjacket. Oxford University Press. London. 1972. "This is the first book on one of the Nilo-Hamitic peoples of the Sudan and provides interesting points for the comparison with studies of the Nilo-Hamites of Kenya and Uganda. It includes an account of Murle history and way of life, and a descriptive analysis of social and political institutions, including kinship and marriage, customary law and age-set organizations. An interesting feature of the Murle political divisions is their association with ritual drumships. The sacred drums, the important symbols of chiefship, feature in situations relating to the unity of the Murle people, such as war and rainmaking."

19. Conrad 18211890, explorer and scholar) and speke (john hanning, 1827-1864 the present goldmedal, that speke made 'one if not the greatest, of all african discoveries http://www.roydavids.com/burton.htm

FOR THE DISCOVERY OF LAKES TANGANYIKA AND VICTORIA NYANZA, AND OF THE SOURCE OF THE NILE BURTON (Sir RICHARD FRANCIS, 1821-1890, explorer and scholar) and SPEKE (JOHN HANNING, 1827-1864, explorer) THE GOLD MEDAL AWARDED BY THE FRENCH GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY TO BURTON AND SPEKE FOR THEIR EXPLORATION OF THE GREAT LAKES IN EAST AFRICA, lettered on the reverse in a raised central legend 'Aux/ Capitaines/ Richard F. Burton/ et J.H. Speke/ pour leur exploration/ des Grands Lacs/ de l'Afrique Orientle/ MDCCCLVII' within a laurel wreath, the obverse inscribed 'Société/ de/ Géographie/ fondée/ En MDCCCXXI' also within a laurel wreath, diameter 56 mm, weight 5 ounces, gold hallmark, very fine, [1859]

20. History of the Royal Society, founder of the african Association and Sir RICHARD FRANCIS,18211890, explorer and scholar) and speke (john hanning, 1827-1864 http://www.roydavids.com/history.htm

This site is notable partly for the fullness of the descriptions of items for sale - please go through the index or short list of contents below and click on highlighted first words to see the full descriptions and prices of items in which you are interested. Use your browser's 'back' button to return to this list ADOLPHUS FREDERICK 1774-1850, Duke of Cambridge, seventh son of George III, Field Marshal, patron of the arts and philanthropist ) AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ('Adolphus Frederick'), to his brother Frederick [Augustus, Duke of York], 1 page, 1805 ANDREW (JOHN ALBION, 1 818-1867, Governor of Massachusetts, worked to create the first regiment of African Americans in the Union Army ) AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED ('J A Andrew'), sending compliements to Rosa Field, 1 page, 1867 ARCHAEOLOGY . FOUR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ARCHAEOLOGICAL DRAWINGS in pen ink and washes by William Henry Brooke of an excavation and Anglo-Saxon artefacts in 1818 at Abbey Farm near Broome Hall at Eye in Suffolk, 21 October 1818 ARNOLD (BENEDICT

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