61. Nile River Rafters Draw Closer To Epic Run News May 4, 2004. After john hanning speke in 1858 encountered a magnificent sheetof water in the heart of East Africa, the Scottish explorer announced that he http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/05/0504_040504_nileriver.html

Sign up for our free e-mail newsletter Also see: Today's Top Stories This Story Adventure E-mail this story Sponsored in part by Win a National Geographic photo workshop in Santa Fe Looking for the ideal gift for Dad or Grads? Send the gift of National Geographic for a special price of $19! Nile River Rafters Draw Closer to Epic Run Stefan Lovgren for National Geographic News May 4, 2004 After John Hanning Speke in 1858 encountered a magnificent sheet of water in the heart of East Africa, the Scottish explorer announced that he had found the source of the Nile. The world's longest river, Speke declared, originates in the lake he named Victoria, and ends 5,584 kilometers (3,470 miles) later in the Mediterranean Sea. Speke may have solved one of the greatest mysteries in 19th-century geography. But in the 136 years since his discovery, no one is believed to have ever traveled the whole length of the Nile river, which snakes its way through some of the most rugged and remote terrain on the planet. Now, an international rafting team could soon join the select few to navigate the Nile from source to sea. The seven rafters left Bujagali Falls in Jinja, Uganda, on January 17. After negotiating their way through rebel territories and down raging cataracts, they recently left Sudan and crossed into Egypt. Now down to six people, the rafters expect to reach the Mediterranean Sea later this month.

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Speke and Grant John Hanning Speke (1827-1864) James Augustus Grant (1827-1892) John Hanning Speke, who had already fought in the British army in India, first became an explorer in 1854, when he joined Richard Burton on a voyage of exploration to Somaliland and eastern Ethiopia. When in 1856 Burton was again sent out to Africa, this time to search for the source of the Nile in East Africa, he again chose Speke as his second-in-command. Together they discovered Lake Tanganyika, and while Burton lay ill, Speke on his own discovered Lake Victoria. For more on these voyages, see Richard Burton Speke was back in England before Burton. Although Speke had promised Burton not to publish anything about their discoveries until the latter had arrived as well, Roderick Murchison, the chairman of the Royal Geographical Society , gave out a press conference immediately after Speke's arrival, and when Burton reached England, Speke had already made their voyage famous, and had been appointed the leader of a new expedition to the area. Burton was bittered, especially because Speke proclaiming that Lake Victoria was the source of the Nile, while Burton himself believed that there was a whole series of lakes which all were sources of the Nile. The new expedition was prepared carefully. Speke chose James Augustus Grant, a friend from his army days, as his companion, while John Petherick, the British consul in Khartoum, was ordered to send ships upstream the Nile to Gondokoro to aid the explorers in their voyage back home. Speke and Grant left England in April 1860, and sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to Zanzibar, where they arrived in August. On October 2 they started their voyage to the inlands of Africa.

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Just Published... We list here all Collections and Guides published in the last three months. Published in May 2004: FOREIGN OFFICE FILES FOR CHINA, 1949-1976 (Public Record Office Classes FO 371 and FCO 21) Part 5: Complete Files for 1953 (PRO Class FO 371/105188-105355) 18 reels of 35mm silver-halide positive microfilm plus guide Available PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS Part 5 provides complete coverage of the FO 371 files covering China and Formosa for 1953. This microfilm edition contains many files on Formosa (Taiwan) concerning American policy, the deneutralisation of the Formosan Straits, and the impact on British trade and shipping in the region. There are an extensive number of files on China’s economy, industrial development and the introduction of collective agreements to fulfil the Five Year Plan, 1953-1957. The project also offers a fascinating insight into various Chinese personalities, including: reports on the movements of Chang Wen Tien, the Chinese Ambassador to the Soviet Union, details on Aitchen K Wu, friend of Chou en Lai and material on Thomas Liao and the Formosan Democratic Independence Party. With access to full coverage of all 1953 Foreign Office Files for China, academics will be able to research topics such as:

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68. Notables Of The 19th Century Quiz British explorer and missionary in Africa, discovered and in East Africa, died inAfrica but is Livingstone Sir Richard Burton Henry Stanley john hanning speke. http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz.cfm?qid=1961&origin=

69. Works About Sir Richard Burton with john Gallagher and Alice Denny Africa and the Schonfield, Hugh J. Richard Burton,explorer London, 1936 speke, john hanning Journal of the Discovery of the http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~garsonkw/brodie.html

Works about Sir Richard Burton This additional bibliography is taken from Fawn Brodie's The Devil Drives: The Life of Sir Richard Burton and cites the literature up to the writing of her excellent book. (Listed Chronologically) Amberley Papers edited by Bertrand Russell, 2 vols. New York, 1937. Arberry, A.J. Oriental Essays, portraits of seven scholars London, 1960. Arberry, A.J. Sufism, an account of the mystics of Islam London, 1950. Archer, W.G. "Reflections on the 'Kama Sutra,'" The Listener , April 18, 1963, pp.665-7. Archer, W.G., Ed. The Kama Sutra of Vatsayana translated by Sir Richard Burton and F.F. Arbuthnot London, 1963. Ashbee, Henry S. (Pisanus Fraxi) Catena Libraorum Tacendorum privately printed London, 1885. Ashbee, Henry S. (Pisanus Fraxi) Index Librorum Prohibitorum privately printed London, 1877. Bacon, Leonard, trans. The Lusiads of Luiz de Camoes translated with introduction and notes by Leonard Bacon New York, 1950.

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Dana Rice MC 377 Prof. Tremonte Film Critique April 19, 2001 Mountains of the Moon: A Re-inscription of the Colonial Master Narrative Clearly, Rafelson wanted to make Burton the hero of his film. He shoots Patrick Bergin’s character in such a way as to convince audiences that Sir Richard Burton was equally concerned about ethnography, as he was about discovering the source of the Nile River. For example, one scene in the film shows Bergin admiring one of the native tribe’s send-off ceremonies. The camera, utilizing an establishing shot (a shot used to show the spatial relations among important figures, objects, and setting), shows how intrigued Burton was with the ceremony. In contrast to Burton, Speke is pinned as the typical British colonizer. Rafelson’s Speke comes across as a power-driven explorer, only concerned with discovering the source of the Nile. The ceremony scene described above personifies this interpretation. Rafelson’s Mountains of the Moon provides an excellent synopsis of the events that transpired over the course of Richard Burton and Lt. John Speke’s four-year voyage. Rafelson crams over a decade of history into a two-and-a-half hour film in an unprecedented way. Unfortunately, Mountains of the Moon did not receive the box office success Rafelson had anticipated. Many film critics have cited the length of the movie, and its mediocre cast as explanations for it failure in theaters (Campbell). Despite whatever reasons for its failure, Rafelson’s story remains one of the best accounts of Burton and Speke’s journey into Central Africa. Furthermore, his movie, with its human touch, reveals the humanity in Burton and Speke in a way no history book could.

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Tales from the Jungle A Rainforest Reader EDITED BY Daniel R. Katz and Miles Chapin Foreword by George Plimpton Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1995 Order this book from Amazon.com The Swarm of Beetles from What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1864), by John Hanning Speke This horrifying short selection comes from John Hanning Speke (1827 1864)'s book WHAT LED TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, a title that is somewhat misleading. There was great rivalry between African explorers of all nationalities in the middle of the nineteenth century and many reputations were made and lost with claims of being the first white man to arrive at some particular place. Speke's book notwithstanding, it was not until Alan Morehead's two volumes THE WHITE NILE (1960) and THE BLUE NILE (1962) that the complete story of the Nile's exploration, and all of its white male "discoverers", was fully told. Speke was an adventurer of the old school pith helmet, swagger stick, camp bathtub, etc. and a great friend of the explorer Sir Richard Burton, who is not to be confused with the hard drinking Welsh actor of the same name. Speke and Burton undertook two African journeys together, in 1854 and 1858 and then had a violent falling out. They each published separate accounts of their efforts, and their rivalry became front page news in the tabloid newspapers of the day. Speke died in a hunting accident just before a public debate between the two was held in front of the Royal Geographic Society in London. Whether Speke's death was a suicide or not is a matter still debated in some academic and literary circles.

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Home Web Directory What's the Buzz? Escape Hatch ... Free Email Friday, June 11, 2004 11:44:29 PM DIRECTORY Science and Technology Agriculture Archaeology Associations and Organizations Astronomy and Space Exploration ... Word game Chapter Quicklink What's the Buzz Escape Hatch: Open Mic The Ruwenzoris The Ruwenzoris are the fabled Mountains of the Moon of East Africa, mysterious and unknown for centuries, and still intriguing. By Sonal Panse, 4/12/2004 Introduction The Ruwenzoris are a chain of remote snow-covered mountains lying to the North of the Equator in Africa and forming a natural barrier between the Western Border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Long considered as the source of the Nile River, this fact wasn't verified until the nineteenth century when European Imperialism in Africa took firm root and the importance of the Nile for trading purposes magnified; controlling the river source meant controlling the river and thereby the trade, and so the Ruwenzoris attracted great interest. Discovery The Ruwenzoris were known to the Ancients. The Greek Geographer Ptolemy, writing in the Second Century B.C., called them Lunae Montae or the Mountains of the Moon and wrote of their connection to the Nile. Aechylus in 500 B.C. and Aristotle in 350 B.C. believed the same. The Syrian Geographer Marinus of Tyre in 120 A.D. wrote about the East African travels of the Greek merchant Diogenes, who apparently was the very first European to sight the mountains.

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Series front E-mailbag Photos Maps ... N.I.E. The Journey Day one Day two Day three Day four ... Day thirteen April 28, 2000 Near the source of the Nile, stuck in a bureaucratic sea A two-night delay at the Uganda border was part of the frustration. Sixth in a series By Andrew Maykuth INQUIRER STAFF WRITER LUGAZI, Uganda - Francis Kuria counted his blessings as his truck bearing 35 tons of American relief food made it this far down the highway yesterday, though progress had come at a price. Delayed for two nights at the Uganda-Kenya border, Kuria woke up unsure if he would spend a third night in Malaba, the seedy Ugandan border town. But his papers cleared customs at the last minute and his company rushed in a spare part to make his truck roadworthy again. So off he went in the afternoon. By day's end, Kuria had traveled only 110 miles and had been shaken down by customs agents who accused him of carrying too much diesel fuel into Uganda. But the Kenyan driver was grateful his delays at the border were relatively brief, by African standards. "I wanted to get moving again," said Kuria, 56, whose truck is carrying grain donated by the U.S. Agency for International Development to war victims in Sudan.

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Boards Main Movie Care Chat ... HOME Sir Richard Francis Burton Follow Ups Post Followup Posted by Jan den Breejen (145.53.141.105) on August 06, 2003 at 00:50:48: This multilingual, sex-obsessed adventurer who shamelessly used the old Arabian Nights tales (He added some porn when translating) to gain a lot of money in the Victorian Age, seems to be mainly Adventurous Style. JDB Sir Richard Francis Burton Richard Francis Burton was an explorer, linguist, scholar, soldier, anthropologist, and a prolific and gifted writer. He lived at a time when Europeans were agressively searching for and claiming the sources of the world's wealth. Burton (who excelled at reconnaissance, mapping, and languages) used his military commissions and scientific funding to map new trade routes, identify and catalogue valuable natural resources, and to analyze the political, religious, and economic systems in foreign countries. Burton is probably most famous for discovering the source of the Nile River in Africa with his partner, John Hanning Speke, in 1858. He is also known as the man who translated the Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra into English. These are respectable accomplishments, but Burton did far more than that in his lifetime. In the past few years, however, there has been a resurgence of interest in Sir Richard Francis Burton. Several substantial books about Burton have been published, and the movie Mountains of the Moon was made about his journey to find the source of the Nile. There are also a growing number of web sites available that provide everything from full e-text copies of his writing to earnest (although brief) biographies.

79. Biographies - Soares To Srisunthorn 17481820) Swedish physician, educator, author, explorer, botanist - French CentralAfrica 580 Chad 431 speke, john hanning (1827-1864) English explorer - St. http://www.philately.com/philately/biososr.htm

SOARES, Enrique (16th Cent.) Portuguese priest - Brazil 710; 1081 Mozambique 481 SOARES, Jose Carlos de Macedo (1883- ) Brazilian lawyer, author, historian, educator, diplomat - Ecuador 641; C421 SOBERS, Garfield (1936- ) Barbadoan cricket player - Barbados 452 SOBHUZA II of Swaziland (1899-1982) King - Swaziland 126-33; 139-42; 142a; 173-443; 461-4; 464a; 471; 471a; 472; 472a; 473; 473a; 474; 474a; 475; 475a; 481-93; 496; 506-18 SOBIESKI, Jacob ( - ) Polish prince, son of JOHN III SOBIESKI - Poland 278; 286 SOBINOV, Leonid V. (1872-1934) Russian actor - Russia 3966 SOBOLEVSKY, Aleksandr (1905- ) Russian physician, polar explorer - Russia 775 SOBRAL, Jose Maria (1880-1961) Argentine geologist, naval officer, polar explorer - Argentina 1070 SOCHOR, Antonin (1914-1950) Czech general - Czechoslovakia 1868 SOCORRO RODRIGUEZ, Manuel (1758-1818) Cuban poet, author, journalist - Colombia C147 SOCRATES, ( - ) Sportsman, soccer player - Central Africa 812 SOCRATES (469-399 BC) Greek philosopher, sculptor - Ajman (M)124 Dominica 244 SODDY, Frederick (1877-1956) English chemist, educator, author, Nobel prize - Sweden 1389

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Large Print Reviews Africa on CD Compiled by Richard Seltzer Home What's New Reviews Articles ... Bestsellers Africa on CD ROM Algeria, Angola, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Libya, Madagascar, Mauritania, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, and Zaire Compiled by Richard Seltzer - March 24, 2003 ISBN: 0-931968-24-0 Genre: History, Political Science Reviewed by Rochelle Caviness - May 23, 2003 Africa is a land of contrasts, a land of mystery, and a land of beauty. The Africa is a diverse land, both geographically and culturally. An intriguing glimpse of Africa can be obtained from the Africa on CD collection that has been compiled by Richard Seltzer. This CD provides a wealth of information on the geography, history, and cultures of the African nations of Algeria, Angola, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Libya, Madagascar, Mauritania, Nigeria, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, and Zaire. The information on this CD is divided into four thematic sections covering country studies, literature, history, and the exploration of Africa (from a European perspective). Also included in this collection is a copy of the 2002 edition of the CIA World Factbook Country Studies Each Country Study is an independent book that provides an in-depth overview of each of the sixteen countries covered on this CD . The country studies were originally issued by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. The Country Study looks at each country's history, society, environment, economy, government, politics, and how the political and social make-up of each country affects the national security of the United States.

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