Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. Showing exceptional courage and extraordinary resilience, Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, Samuel Baker, David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley risked their lives and their reputations in the name of this quest. They journeyed through East and Central Africa into unmapped territory, discovered the great lakesTanganyika and Victoria, navigated the upper Nile and the Congo, and suffered the ravages of flesh-eating ulcers, malaria and deep spear wounds. Using new research, Tim Jeal tells the story of these great expeditions, while also examining the tragic consequences which the Nile search has had on Uganda and Sudan to this day. Explorers of the Nile is a gripping adventure story with an arresting analysis of Britain's imperial past and the Scramble for Africa.
Tim Jeal is an acclaimed novelist and biographer, whose Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer was published by Faber in 2007 and was a BBC Radio Four 'Book of the Week'. Stanley was named Sunday Times Biography of the Year, and, in the US, won the National Book Critics' Circle Award in Biography for 2007. Tim's memoir Swimming with my Father was published by Faber in 2004 and was also a BBC Radio Four 'Book of the Week' and was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize for autobiography. In September 2011 Faber will publish Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure, which, thanks to much original research, will shed fascinating new light on the 'Search for the Nile' and its colonial consequences. In 1973 Tim Jeal's Livingstone (1973) was selected as a 'Notable Book of the Year' by the New York Times Book Review and one of the 'Best and Brightest of the Year' by the Washington Post Book World.Livingstone formed the basis for a BBC TV documentary and a film for the Discovery Channel. It has never been out of print. Nor has Tim Jeal's Baden-Powell (1989), which was a 'Notable Book of the Year', and was chosen by Channel 4 for its 'Secret Lives' strand. In 1975 Tim was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize.
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| AJ | Schapera, I. ed. Livingstone’s African Journal 1853–1856 2 vols |
| AN | Baker, S. W. The Albert N’yanza: Great Basin of the Nile |
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| Brazza | West, Richard Brazza of the Congo |
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| CD | Stanley’s Congo Diaries, devoted to his work on the Congo |
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| Ismailia | Baker, S. W. Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade 2 vols |
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| Journal | Speke, John H. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile |
| Journal proofs | Proofs of Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile in NLS |
| Journal ms | Original manuscript of Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile in NLS |
| JRGS | Journal of the Royal Geographical Society |
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| NAZ | National Archives of Zimbabwe |
| Nile Basin | Burton, Richard F. and M’Queen, James The Nile Basin |
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| NLS | National Library of Scotland |
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| Perham | Perham, Margery Lugard: The Years of Adventure 1858– 1898 |
| PRGS | Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society |
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| QK book | Young, D. ed. The Search for the Source of the Nile: [etc.] |
| Reader | Reader, John Africa: A Biography of the Continent |
| RGS | Royal Geographical Society |
| RM | Sir Roderick Murchison Bart |
| RMCA | Royal Museum of Central... |
