Local Informants and British Explorers: the Search for the Source of the Nile, 1850-1875
My thesis describes the praxis of geographical exploration in the mid-nineteenth century through the activities of members of the Royal Geographical Society of London (RGS). I focus on the First East African Expedition (1856-1859), which was led by Richard F. Burton. Geographical exploration was i...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35306 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10062001-145516/ |