Article: The sad story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile; or, was John Hanning Speke a cad?(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: John Hanning Speke
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...John Hanning Speke 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 of eastern Africa. Ever ...

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Geographical;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Speke and The Nile or Was John Hanning Speke a Cad?--in which Stanford ... explorers Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke over Speke's claim to have ... Speke and The Nile or Was John Hanning Speke a Cad? by WB Carnochan, Stanford ...

Article: John Hanning Speke (1827-64): Richard ...
Geographical;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...What was his background? John Hanning Speke was born in Devon on 4 May 1827 to Georgina Hanning and William Speke. He served in the British Indian Army in the Punjab from ...

Article: Captain Speke's artificial horizon: the army officer and explorer ...
Geographical;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Born in Devon in 1827, John Hanning Speke was commissioned into the British Indian Army in 1844, going on to travel in the Himalaya. However, he is best known for his ...

Article: El viajero; John Hanning Speke, ...
Tribuna de Actualidad;  August 11, 1997 ;     379 words ...La vida de Speke va unida a la de Richard F. Burton (TRIBUNA, nm. 467). Explor el Himalaya siendo oficial del ejrcito ingls. En el ao 1855 se asocia con Burton en la expedicin a Somalilandia, y un ao ms tarde, al lago Tanganika. En 1858 descubre el lago Victoria creyendo que se trata de las fuentes

John Hanning Speke.
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Article: In speke's ear: Beetlemania?(John Hanning ...
Sports Afield;  October 1, 2006 ;     609 words ...O fall the injuries and afflictions suffered by John Harming Speke during his quest to discover the source of the Nile in 1854 and 1856, none was as eerie as the incident when a beetle lodged itself in his ear. Too exhausted to contend with the countless "small black beetles" swarming about his