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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: walk across Africa
    sub title: J.A. Grant's account of the Nile expedition of 1860-1863
  name:
    name part: Grant, James Augustus
    name part: 1827-1892
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Bridges, R. C. (Roy C.)
    role:
      role term: editor,
    role:
      role term: writer of introduction.
  name:
    name part: Hakluyt Society
    role:
      role term: issuing body.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxix, 411 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm.
  abstract: The Nile Expedition of 1860-1863 was one of the most important exploratory expeditions made in the nineteenth century. The long-debated question of the location of the source of the Nile was answered (despite continuing arguments) and the venture had important historical consequences. Earlier accounts of the expedition have assumed James Augustus Grant to have been no more than the loyal second-in-command to John Hanning Speke, the leader. This new edition of Grant's 1864 book, A Walk across Africa, provides the opportunity to re-examine his role. The original text has been fully annotated with explanatory notes and also supplemented by extracts from the very remarkable detailed day-to-day journal which Grant kept. Even more unusually, this edition includes reproductions of the whole visual record which he made consisting of 147 watercolours and sketches. This was the first ever visual record of large parts of East Africa and the Upper Nile Valley region. These documentary and illustrative materials have been drawn from the extensive collection of Grant's papers now in the care of the National Library of Scotland. The Library has co-operated in the preparation of this volume to make possible its special features.Grant emerges as a much more impressive and important figure than has previously been recognised. He was a trained scientist and his narrative is a well-organised perspective on the expedition and its activities. His own growing understanding of Africa and of Africans becomes apparent and helps to explain his later activities.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Grant and his contribution to the Nile expedition of 1860-1863 -- Prelude to the expedition: East African development to 1860 and the idea of the Nile expedition -- The Nile problem: controversy and credulity -- Grant's geographical work and his views on the Nile problem -- Grant's reputation and the place of his work and exploration: a survey of the literature -- The text of A walk across Africa with extracts from the journal -- Preface / [by J.A. Grant] -- Plymouth to Zanzibar -- Zanzibar and Bagomoyo -- Journey to Kazeh -- Sojourn at Kazeh -- Journey to Ukuni and sojourn at Mineenga -- Life in Ukuni -- Ukuni to Karagwe -- Karagwe -- The Uganda march -- Buganda -- From Buganda to Bunyoro and "Captain Speke proceeds to the Lake Nyanza" -- Bunyoro, the Omukama Kamarasi and embarking on the Nile -- From Bunyoro to an Egyptian encampment at Faloro -- Life with the Khartoum traders and news of Speke's death -- Passage through the Bari country, Gondokoro and the meetings with Baker and Petherick -- From Gondokoro to Khartoum by boat -- "A modern Babylon": Khartoum -- From Khartoum to Cairo -- Appendix A: list of personal kit taken with us from England for the expedition -- Appendix B: letter dated 17 November 1864 from Trenham Reeks to Captain Grant -- Epilogue.
  note: edited by Roy Bridges.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: Given by Charles R. Tapley, Julie Tapley, David Tapley and Kyle Tapley in honor of John T. Tapley.
  subject:
    geographic code: fe-----
    geographic code: fl-----
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Grant, James Augustus
      name part: 1827-1892
    topic: Travel
    geographic: Africa, East
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Grant, James Augustus
      name part: 1827-1892
  subject:
    geographic: Africa, East
    topic: Description and travel
  subject:
    geographic: Nile River
    topic: Description and travel
  subject:
    geographic: Africa, East
    topic: Discovery and exploration
  subject:
    topic: Discoveries in geography
  subject:
    topic: Travel
  subject:
    geographic: Africa, East
  subject:
    geographic: Nile River
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Grant, James
      name part: 1827-1892
  subject:
    topic: Expedition
  subject:
    geographic: Nil
  classification: DT365.2 .G73 2018
  classification: 916.7604
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Hakluyt Society. Works. Third series
    part:
      text: no:32
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 3rd ser., no. 32
  identifier: 9781908145161
  identifier: 1908145161
  identifier: 9781351253369
  identifier: 1351253360
  identifier: 2017035650
  record info:
    record content source: IEN/DLC
    record creation date: 170727
    record change date: 20181023094049.0
    record identifier: in00003988109
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng