Free Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure by Tim Jeal

List of Plates
A medieval reconstruction of Ptolemy’s map of the world, in The Discovery of the Nile by Gianni Guadalupi, from a map in the Vatican Library, Rome
Richard Burton depicted as an Afghan peddler in Isabel
Burton’s The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton (1893).
John Speke and James Grant at Mutesa’s court. From Speke’s Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile.
A naked Mutesa drawn by Speke in one of his sketchbooks, now at the Royal Geographical Society. RGS
Speke portrayed standing at the Ripon Falls source, by the artist James Watney Wilson. RGS
African birds drawn by Speke. RGS
Samuel Baker and Florence von Sass in a storm on Lake Albert, an engraving from Samuel Baker’s The Albert Nyanza (1874).
Obbo warriors perform a war dance, a water colour by Samuel
Baker, in the Baker family collection.
Baker’s sketch of himself in danger of being trampled by an elephant, in the Baker family collection.
James Gordon Bennett Jr., editor of the New York Herald, by ‘Nemo’ (Constantine von Grimm), chromolithograph, Vanity Fair, 15 November 1884.
Stanley and his men crossing the Makata swamp, a magic lantern slide in a private collection.
Hats worn by Livingstone and Stanley at the time of their meeting, now in the RGS.
Stanley watches a phalanx dance by Chief Mazamboni’s warriors, during the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, an illustration in Stanley’s In Darkest Africa (1890).
Livingstone’s remains being carried to the coast by his men, a magic lantern slide from The Life and Work of David Livingstone, published by the London Missionary Society (1900).
David Livingstone in 1866. London Missionary Society Richard Burton posing in Arab clothes, by Ernest Edwards, April 1865, in David Livingstone and the Victorian Encounter with Africa. National Portrait Gallery
Richard Burton in his tent in Somaliland, a photograph in Isabel
Burton’s The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton (1893).
John Hanning Speke as a young officer in India, an oil painting reproduced in Harry Johnston’s The Nile Quest (1903).
Speke before his great journey, a photograph in Mary Lovell’s A Rage to Live (1998).
Speke’s memorial in Kensington Gardens.
Samuel Baker in his African hunting attire, Baker family collection.
Florence von Sass before her marriage to Samuel Baker, from Richard Hall’s Lovers on the Nile.
The Royal Geographical Society outing during the meeting of the British Association in Bath, 1864, a photograph in the David Livingstone Centre.
Henry Stanley aged twenty-eight, two years before he ‘found’ Dr Livingstone, a photograph in the estate of the late Quentin Keynes.
Chuma and Susi, Dr Livingstone’s servants. London Missionary Society
Some of Stanley’s principal Wangwana carriers on his great trans-Africa journey, a photograph in the Royal Museum of Central Africa.
Karl Peters, the German explorer and imperialist. © Getty Images
Princess Salme, sister of the Sultan of Zanzibar. Author’s Collection
Captain T. M. S. Pasley RN. Author’s Collection
James S. Jameson, a photograph in The Story of the Rear-Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, ed. Mrs J. S. Jameson (1890).
Major Edmund Barttelot, a photograph in W. G. Barttelot’s The Life of Edmund Musgrave Barttelot (1890).
Stanley (aged forty-six) and Anthony Swinburne, a photograph in the Royal Museum of Central Africa.
Captain Frederick Lugard soon after claiming Uganda for Britain, a photograph in Margery Perham’s Lugard: The Years of Adventure 1858-1898 (1956).
Kabarega of Bunyoro in old age, a photograph in Alan Moorehead’s The White Nile (1960).
Henry Stanley in 1892 with his close friend Sir William Mackinnon of the Imperial British East Africa Company, a photograph in the Royal Museum of Central Africa.
Major-General Sir Horatio Kitchener at the time of the battle of Omdurman, a photograph in Philip Magnus’s Kitchener: Portrait of an Imperialist (1958).
Marchand’s emissaries approach Kitchener’s ship, a photograph in