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John Hanning Speke.
My Second Expedition to Eastern -Intertropical Africa.
Cape Town: Privately printed, Saul Solomon and Company, 1860.
Acquired through the J. Henry Meyer -Memorial Fund.
The first edition of a very rare pamphlet which Speke probably had printed in Cape Town on his way to his second expedition to East Africa, the trip on which Speke would claim discovery of the source of the Nile. This pamphlet fueled the very public and famous controversy between Speke and Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) about the discovery of the source of the Nile. |
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