Speke, John Hanning
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Speke, John Hanning (1827–64). British soldier and explorer. Speke became famous as the result of two exploratory journeys in eastern Africa. In the course of the first, led by another Briton, Richard
Burton, which reached Lake Tanganyika in 1858, Speke conceived the idea that Lake Victoria was the source of the White Nile. Burton and others rejected the claim and Speke led another expedition (1860–3) which confirmed his earlier opinion, but because he was unable to circumnavigate Lake Victoria or to follow the Nile along the whole of its course to the sea, his claim was again challenged. Later explorers proved him to have been right. Speke died in a shooting accident.
Kenneth Ingham
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John Hanning Speke (1827-64): Richard Burton's exploring companion, John Speke was the first European to reach Lake Victoria, which he correctly identified as a source of the Nile.(Late Great Geographers #54)(Biography)
Magazine article from: Geographical; 4/1/2005; 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...out to explore Somalia in 1854, Speke was on leave from the 46th Regiment...
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In speke's ear: Beetlemania?(John Hanning Speke)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Sports Afield; 10/1/2006; ; 609 words
; ...injuries and afflictions suffered by John Harming Speke during his quest to discover the...beetles" swarming about his tent, Speke fell asleep. He quickly awoke when...his ear failed to flush it out, Speke took to lancing the creature with...
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The sad story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile; or, was John Hanning Speke a cad?(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2006; 517 words
; 080475571X The sad story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile; or, was John Hanning Speke a cad? Carnochan, W.B. Stanford U. Press...Burton discovered the source of the Nile. No, John Hanning Speke discovered it. The problem is...
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Paperback round-up.(The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia)(The Sad Story of Burton, Speke and the Nile or was John Hanning Speke a Cad?)(The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Geographical; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...for a curious book--The Sad Story of Burton, Speke and The Nile or Was John Hanning Speke a Cad?--in which Stanford University professor...of 19th-century explorers Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke over Speke's claim to have discovered...
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Captain Speke's artificial horizon: the army officer and explorer used this navigational aid during his search for the source of the River Nile.(FROM THE COLLECTION)(John Hanning Speke )
Magazine article from: Geographical; 1/1/2008; 700+ words
; Born in Devon in 1827, John Hanning Speke was commissioned into the British...the River Nile. In April 1855, Speke joined Captain Richard Francis Burton...face pierced both his cheeks, and Speke was captured and stabbed several...
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El viajero; John Hanning Speke, 1827-1864.(TT: The traveler; John Hanning Speke, 1827-1864)
Magazine article from: Tribuna de Actualidad; 8/11/1997; 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...
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UNRAVELING SPEKE: THE UNKNOWN REVISION OF AN AFRICAN EXPLORATION CLASSIC
Magazine article from: History In Africa; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Eliot, Joseph Conrad, John Buchan, and Anthony Trollope...catalog as "MS. 4872-4. John Hanning Speke. Manuscript and proofs...very different from what Speke had originally intended...revision, concerning John Hanning Speke's battle...
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CARTOGRAPHICAL QUANDARIES: THE LIMITS OF KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN BURTON'S AND SPEKE'S SEARCH FOR THE SOURCE OF THE NILE
Magazine article from: History In Africa; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Victoria on 3 August 1858, John Hanning Speke (1859b:397) realized...Richard Burton and Captain Hanning Speke." Yet Speke...lacked empirical support (Speke had, after all, only...outlet of the Nile), Speke reacted with anger...
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'MOUNTAINS' A SMALL FILM ABOUT BIG DREAMS.(Weekend)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 5/11/1990; 700+ words
; ...century explorers Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke. Unfortunately, no such clearly...and friendships between Burton and Speke (Iain Glen), the Victorian view...annoyingly scant implication that Speke's motives included homosexuality...
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The fierce couple: Richard and Isabel
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 10/10/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...cities of Mecca and Medina, following which, with John Hanning Speke, he discovered Lake Tanganyika in a controversial...biography, it is of her almost dismissive treatment of John Hanning Speke, who admittedly had many failings. Indeed, following...
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John Hanning Speke
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
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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Speke, John Hanning
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Speke, John Hanning (1827–64) British explorer. From 1854 to 1858 he accompanied...the first Europeans to discover Lake Tanganyika (1858), after which Speke went on to reach a great lake which he identified as the ‘...
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Ganda
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement
...in 1844, and the first trade caravan arrived from Zanzibar in 1869. The first Europeans, the British Captains John Hanning Speke and James Grant, arrived in 1862 on their journey to discover the source of the Nile. Soon thereafter Protestant...
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Hehe
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement
...the Hehe began with Richard Francis Burton's brief mention of the group in 1857. This was hearsay, since he and John Hanning Speke traveled north of Uhehe along the central caravan route. Hehe traditions begin with migrations from the southwest...
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Glen, Iain 1961–
Book article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
...Willie Quinton, Fools of Fortune, Laurenfilm, 1990. John Hanning Speke, Mountains of the Moon, Carolco Pictures, 1990. Hamlet...anima (also known as The Soul Keeper ), 2003. Brother John, Song for a Raggy Boy, 2003. Richard Sorge, Spy Sorge...
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