Zanzibar: City, Island, and Coast
Contenu
- Titre
- Zanzibar: City, Island, and Coast
- Créateur
- Burton, Richard Francis Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
- Date
- 2011
- Dans
- Cambridge Library Collection - African Studies Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
- Résumé
- First published in 1872, this two-volume memoir by explorer, ethnographer and diplomat Sir Richard Burton (1821–90) was written while Burton and John Hanning Speke were making preparations for their expedition to solve one of the major geographical mysteries of the nineteenth century - the location of the source of the Nile. Volume 2 concerns the two journeys to the interior of West Africa, a 'tentative expedition' in early 1857, and the nineteen-month exploration, which began in June 1857, into the East African highlands. Burton was in poor health, and Speke travelled further north without him; he discovered Lake Victoria, and (rightly) concluded that it was the source of the Nile. This led to the notorious dispute between the two explorers, and in his final chapter, written after Speke's tragic death, Burton gives the history of the argument, and vehemently denies any jealousy or personal enmity on his part.
- Editeur
- Cambridge University Press Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
- Place
- Cambridge
- Sujet
- Zanzibar Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur
- Langue
- eng
- volume
- 2
- ISBN
- 978-1-108-03147-9
- Titre abrégé
- Zanzibar
Burton, Richard Francis, “Zanzibar: City, Island, and Coast”, Cambridge University Press, 2011, bibliographie, consulté le 18 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/1658
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