SPEKE, JOHN HANNING

spēk, 1827–64, English explorer in Africa. He joined Sir Richard Burton in his expeditions to Somaliland (1854) and to E central Africa (1857–59). Together they discovered (1858) Lake Tanganyika; then Speke continued alone and discovered Lake Victoria, which he believed to be a source of the Nile. In 1862 he returned to the lake and proved that the Victoria Nile issues from the north end over Ripon Falls. He wrote Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (1863).

See biography by A. Maitland (1971).

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books on: Speke John Hanning  - 83 results

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The Sad Story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile; Or, Was John Hanning Speke a Cad? Looking at the Evidence
Book by W. B. Carnochan; Stanford University Press, 2006
Subjects: Burton, Richard Francis--Sir--1821-1890--Travel--Nile River, Explorers--Nile River--History--19th Century, Nile River Valley--Discovery And Exploration, Nile River--Discovery And Exploration, Speke, John Hanning--1827-1864
...Data Carnochan, W B. The sad story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile; or, Was John Hanning Speke a cad? looking at the evidence / W B. Carnochan...5571-x (pbk: alk. paper) i. Speke, John Hanning, 1827-1864. 2. Burton, Richard...
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The Gaelic Otherworld: John Gregorson Campbell's Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and Witchcraft and Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands
Book by Ronald Black; Birlinn, 2005
Subjects: Folklore--Scotland--Highlands, Witchcraft--Scotland--Highlands
...1845, pp. 675-700 Smith, Rev. Dr John, Sean Dana, Edinburgh, 1787 Smith, John A., et al., eds, Aithris is Oideas...for Research in Education, London, 1964 Speke, John Hanning, Journal of the Discovery of the Source...
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The Oxford Companion to British History
Book by John Cannon; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects: Great Britain--History--Encyclopedias
...favour of indoor relief in workhouses. JAC Speke, John Hanning 1827-64 . British soldier and explorer. Speke became famous as the result of two exploratory...Clarke, Jacob Epstein, Elisabeth Frink, John Hutton, John Piper, Patrick Reyntiens...
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Everyman's Dictionary of Literary Biography, English & American: English & American
Book by John W. Cousin, D. C. Browning; J. M. Dent & Sons, 1958
Subjects: American Literature--Bio-Bibliography, English Literature--Bio-Bibliography, Fiction
...being run over by a cab. Speed, John 1552?-28 July 1629 , historian...of the Empire of Great Britain . Speke, John Hanning 4 May 1827-18 Sept. 1864 , explorer...with him in the course of which Speke discovered Lake Victoria Nyanza...
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Joseph Conrad and the Anthropological Dilemma: Bewildered Traveller
Book by John W. Griffith; Clarendon Press, 1995
Subjects: Anthropology In Literature, Conrad, Joseph--1857-1924--Knowledge--Anthropology, Culture In Literature, Ethnology In Literature, Primitive Societies In Literature, Travel In Literature
...193 Saturday Review 155 Saveson, John E. 143 Schopenhauer, Arthur 189...205 South Pole 165 Speaker 143 Speke, John Hanning 29 Spencer, Herbert 161 , 170...Talbot, Eugene S. 154 Tanner, John 162 Tarde, Gabriel de 175 Tarzan...
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journal articles on: Speke John Hanning  - 9 results

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Unraveling Speke: the Unknown Revision of an African Exploration Classic
Journal article by David Finkelstein; History In Africa, Vol. 30, 2003
Unraveling Speke: the Unknown Revision of an African...publishing George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, John Buchan, and Anthony Trollope, as well...the NLS catalog as "MS. 4872-4. John Hanning Speke. Manuscript and proofs of Journal of...
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Opening the Secret: Marriage, Narration, and Nascent Subjectivity in Middle English Romance
Journal article by John H. Perry; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 76, 1997
Subjects: English literature, 1100-1485 (Middle English period)--Social aspects, Marriage in literature--12th century, Romance literature--12th century, Secrecy--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...concept of the individual. Nonetheless, Hanning is on the right track, and by paying...movement toward the kind of subjectivity Hanning seeks to find. Recent work on the development...fascinated by "the experience of love," as Hanning put it -- should emerge in the midst...
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Cartographical Quandaries: the Limits of Knowledge Production in Burton's and Speke's Search for the Source of the Nile
Journal article by Adrian S. Wisnicki; History In Africa, Vol. 35, 2008
...Lake Victoria on 3 August 1858, John Hanning Speke (1859b:397) realized that he...of the world to unravel." That Speke was an unknown explorer and that...the interior of Africa and placed Speke at the pinnacle of a line of explorers...
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Alcohol Consumption in the Rural Population of Misungwi Subdistrict in Mwanza Region, Tanzania
Journal article by Taatske Rijken, Johan P. Velema, Rob Dijkstra; Journal of Studies on Alcohol, Vol. 59, 1998
Subjects: Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Social aspects, Tanzania--Alcohol use
...villages, as everywhere in East Africa. In 1858, John Hanning Speke, the first white man to see the sources of the Nile...present survey. Conclusion The observations made by John Hanning Speke in 1858 gave the impression that the lives of...
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Paths without Glory
Journal article by Garth Myers; The Geographical Review, Vol. 101, 2011
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Paths without Glory: Richard Francis Burton in Africa (Biography)--Book reviews
...African interior in the company of John Hanning Speke a few years later and his vicious rivalry with Speke afterward, lo his later diplomatic...geographers, speaking ill of the dead (Speke, whose accidental death on the...
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magazine articles on: Speke John Hanning  - 24 results

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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
Magazine article; Geographical, Vol. 77, April 2005
Subjects: Devon, England, Speke, John Hanning--Appreciation, Speke, John Hanning--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Speke, John Hanning--Biography
John Hanning Speke (1827-64): Richard Burtons Exploring Companion, John Speke Was the First European to Reach Lake Victoria, Which He Correctly Identified...
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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
Magazine article; Geographical, Vol. 80, January 2008
Subjects: Explorers--Achievements and awards, Nile River--Discovery and exploration, Speke, John Hanning--Achievements and awards
...River Nile. 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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Where Is the True Source of the Nile?
Magazine article by Chris Edwards; Geographical, Vol. 76, April 2004
Subjects: Nile River, Speke, John Hanning--Discovery and exploration
...to suicide. Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke found Lake Tanganyika together in...different paths. Later that year, Speke reached a lake that he named after...location of the source of the Nile with Speke at the British Association for the...
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Months Past: The Source of the Nile; the Pact to End War; and the Fall of the Hospitallers: Richard Cavendish Introduces This Month's Anniversaries
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 58, August 2008
Subjects: Explorers--Works, Knights and knighthood--Aims and objectives, Knights--Aims and objectives, Nile River--Discovery and exploration, Renunciation of War Treaty, 1928, Speke, John Hanning--Works, War (International law)--Social aspects, World War I, 1914-1918
...Niles Source Discovered John Harming Speke, an army officers son...refusing to admit that Speke had discovered the source...face Burton in debate. Speke was thirty-seven when...Order of the Knights of St John, or Knights Hosoitallers...
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Paperback Round-Up
Magazine article by Sian Gibson; Geographical, Vol. 78, June 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia (Book)--Book reviews, The Sad Story of Burton, Speke and the Nile or was John Hanning Speke a Cad? (Book)--Book reviews, The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool (Book)--Book reviews
...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 Spekes claim to have discovered...
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newspaper articles on: Speke John Hanning  - 14 results

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Going Up the Nile? Don't Forget Your False Teeth!
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 18, 2011
...egotism made his teammate John Hanning Spekes life a misery on their first expedition. Speke was a loner, steely and...expedition. As it happened, Speke was the perfect choice...Burton and Iain Glen as John Hanning Speke in Mountains...
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Going Up the Nile? Don't Forget Your False Teeth! ... and DO Try to Avoid Falling in Love with the Local King's Daughter. It'll Only End in Tears; BOOK OF THE WEEK
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 18, 2011
Subjects: Books
...egotism made his teammate John Hanning Spekes life a misery on their first expedition. Speke was a loner, steely and...expedition. As it happened, Speke was the perfect choice...Burton and Iain Glen as John Hanning Speke in Mountains...
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Discovering the Nile's Source and Odd Pairs
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 13, 2003
...companion - some said, lover - John Hanning Speke to arrive at the annual convention...became known as "the Nile Duel." Speke was convinced that the source of...duplicitous British consul in Zanzibar, John Kirk. But give Kirk some credit...
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Af Loat on the Empire's River of Adventure
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 1, 2006
Subjects: Livingstone, David
...Lieutenants Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke set off on an epic adventure to...headed back to Zanzibar, leaving Speke to take a small party on to Lake...Ukewere. On August 3, he arrived. Speke immediately announced he had found...
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High-Flown Fee; MR BROCKLEBANK
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), June 9, 2009
Subjects: Fighter planes
...BROCKLEBANK. M R BROCKLEBANK visited Speke Aerodrome yesterday, which is now apparently named after a John Lennon (can anyone advise on this odd name change? John Hanning Speke was a renowned explorer, was this...
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encyclopedia articles on: Speke John Hanning  - 2 results

 
 
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Speke, John Hanning
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SPEKE, JOHN HANNING spek, 1827 64, English explorer in Africa. He joined Sir Richard Burton...1857 59). Together they discovered (1858) Lake Tanganyika; then Speke continued alone and discovered Lake Victoria, which he believed to be...
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Uganda
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the mid-1880s, however, Buganda again dominated S Uganda. European Contacts and Religious Conflicts In 1862, John Hanning Speke , a British explorer interested in establishing the source of the Nile, became the first European to visit Buganda...


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