John Hanning Speke
1827-1864
English explorer who discovered the source of the Nile, the longest river in Africa. Speke served
in the army in India before setting out with Richard Francis Burton (1821...
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John Hanning Speke
Born May 4, 1827, Ilminster, Somerset, England Died September 16, 1864, Bath, England
John Hanning Speke was at the center of one of the biggest geographical controversies of the ...
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An English explorer of Africa, John Hanning Speke (1827-1864) solved the riddle of the Nile River by discovering its source during the course of an epic journey to and through the Great Lakes region o...
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John Hanning Speke's African travel writing appeared just prior to the great scramble for Africa, when European expeditions, financed privately or by political and scientific institutions, began syste...
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John Hanning Speke
John Hanning Speke
John Hanning Speke
John Hanning Speke