In 1859 John Hanning Speke set out to prove that Lake Victoria, which he’d discovered the previous year, was the source of the River Nile – a claim hotly contested by his fellow explorer Richard Burton, who had been unable to accompany him there in 1858 due to illness. This abridged version of Speke’s original text, first published in 1863, details his journey with James Augustus Grant from Zanzibar to Ripon Falls.
The source of the River Nile was one of the great mysteries of the Victorian age. On an expedition with Richard Burton which reached Lake Tanganyika, Speke went on alone to investigate rumours of the lake he would later name Victoria and proclaim the source of the Nile. This led to a furious dispute with Burton, and it was in the hope of proving his theory correct that Speke launched the expedition that he describes in this book.
One of the great journeys of Victorian exploration, Speke and his companion James Augustus Grant travelled from the island of Zanzibar inland to Lake Victoria and saw the Ripon Falls where the outfall from the lake flows north.
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