Research Catalog

Title

Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile / by John Hanning Speke ; with map and portraits, and numerous illustrations, chiefly from drawings by Captain Grant.

Author

Speke, John Hanning, 1827-1864.

Publication

New York : Harper & Brothers, publishers, Franklin Square, 1864.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Grant, James Augustus, 1827-1892.
• Harper & Brothers, publisher.

Description

xxx, [1], 32-590 p., [4] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., ports., maps; 25 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subject

• Nile River > Discovery and exploration
• Nile River Valley > Discovery and exploration
• Africa, East > Description and travel
• Uganda > Description and travel

Note

• Most plates are included in pagination, excepting the frontispiece portait of Speke, the two maps (one folded), and the portrait of Grant facing p. 386.

Indexed In (note)

• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

ch. 1. London to Zanzibar, 1859 -- ch. 2. Uzaramo -- ch. 3. Usagara -- ch. 4. Ugogo, and the wilderness of Mgunda Mkhali -- ch. 5. U-n-ya-mŭézi -- ch. 6. Uzinza -- ch. 7. Usŭi -- ch. 8. Karagŭé -- ch. 9. History of the Wahŭma -- ch. 10. Karagŭé and Uganda -- ch. 11[-ch. 14]. Palace, Uganda -- ch. 15. March down the northern slopes of Africa -- ch. 16. Bahr el Abaid -- ch. 17[-ch. 18]. Unyoro -- ch. 19. The march at Madi -- Ch. 20. Madi.

Call Number

Sc Rare 916.76-S (Speke, J. Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile)

OCLC

• 1498438
• NYPGR1498438-B

Author

Speke, John Hanning, 1827-1864.

Title

Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile / by John Hanning Speke ; with map and portraits, and numerous illustrations, chiefly from drawings by Captain Grant.

Imprint

New York : Harper & Brothers, publishers, Franklin Square, 1864.

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 9685

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 916.76-S (accession no. B429217) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Grant, James Augustus, 1827-1892.

Harper & Brothers, publisher.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 916.76-S (Speke, J. Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile)

BMW (Speke, J. H. Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile)