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Authors: Tim Jeal
Tags: #Non-Fiction, #Travel, #Adventure, #History
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure (88 page)
African birds drawn by Speke.
Samuel Baker and Florence von Sass in a storm on Lake Albert.
Obbo warriors perform a war dance, as sketched by Samuel Baker.
Baker’s sketch of himself in danger of being trampled by an elephant.
James Gordon Bennett Jr, editor of the
New York Herald
, who was persuaded by Henry Stanley to send him to find Livingstone.
Hats worn by Livingstone and Stanley at the time of their meeting.
The Makata swamp crossed by Stanley.
Stanley watches a phalanx dance by Chief Mazamboni’s warriors.
Livingstone’s remains being carried to the coast by his men.
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The local silver currency in Zanzibar, worth about £1 sterling for five coins.
Table of Contents
3 A Rush of Men Like a Stormy Wind
5 Everything Was to be Risked for This Prize
19 Never to Give Up the Search Until I Find Livingstone
20 The Doctor’s Obedient and Devoted Servitor
21 Threshing Out the Beaten Straw
22 Nothing Earthly Will Make Me Give Up My Work
23 Where Will You Be? Dead or Still Seeking the Nile?
24 The Unknown Half of Africa Lies Before Me
27 An Unheard of Deed of Blood
29 An Arabian Princess and a German Battle Squadron
30 ‘Saving’ Emin Pasha and Uganda
31 The Prime Minister’s Protectorate
32 To Die for the Mahdi’s Cause
33 Equatoria and the Tragedy of Southern Sudan
34 A Sin not Theirs: The Tragedy of Northern Uganda
CODA Lacking the Wand of an Enchanter
APPENDIX Fifty Years of Books on the Search for the Nile’s Source
