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Johnson, Martin Elmer
1884–1937, American explorer and author, b. Rockford, Ill. He left home at 14 to work his way to Europe on a cattle boat, returning as a stowaway. He then joined the crew of Jack London's round-the-world cruise on the Snark, and was the only member of the party to complete the trip. His interest in photographing wildlife and native tribes seen on this voyage led him to make several trips for this purpose to the South Sea Islands and Borneo before undertaking (1921) the African expeditions for which he is best known. [eng] |
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Johnston, Sir Harry Hamilton
1858–1927, British explorer and colonial official. His early interest in the natural sciences was combined with his concern for the political problems of colonial Africa. He began his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa in 1882 and in 1883 encountered Henry Morton Stanley in the Congo Basin. [eng] |
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Du Chaillu, Paul Belloni
1831–1903, French-American explorer in Africa. Born probably in Paris, he spent his youth on the west coast of Africa, where his father was a trader in Gabon. There he learned the native languages and became interested in exploring the interior. Arriving in the United States in 1852, he became a citizen and gained the support of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences for an expedition to explore Gabon. [eng] |
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Emin Pasha
1840–92, German explorer, whose original name was Eduard Schnitzer. A physician, he served (1876–78) under Gen. Charles Gordon in Sudan as a district medical officer. In 1878 he succeeded Gordon as governor of Equatoria, the southernmost province of the Egyptian Sudan. [eng] |
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Chaillй-Long, Charles
, 1842–1917, American soldier, African explorer, and writer, b. Princess Anne, Md. After serving in the Civil War, he was commissioned (1869) in the Egyptian army under Gen. C. G. Gordon. Chaillé-Long explored the Victoria Nile and was awarded a medal by the American Geographical Society. In 1875 he crossed the Congo-Nile divide to the Bahr al Ghazal region. [eng] |
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Park, Mungo
1771–1806, British explorer in Africa, b. Selkirk, Scotland. After serving as a surgeon with the East India Company, he was employed by the African Association to explore the course of the Niger River. Traveling NE from the Gambia River, he reached the Niger at Segu and proceeded 300 mi (483 km) upstream to Bamako. [eng] |
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Speke, John Hanning
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). [eng] |
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Isabelle Eberhardt: Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com
Isabelle Eberhardt (Feb. 17, 1877 - October 21, 1904) was an explorer who lived and traveled extensively in North Africa. [eng] |
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Discoverers Web: Gil Eannes
Portuguese navigator Eannes originally was a household servant and shield-bearer of Henry the Navigator. Sent on a number of voyages along the coast of northwest Africa, Eannes became the first to round Cape Bojador. The cape was regarded at that time as the edge of the known world, navigation along that coast being particularly difficult. The coast itself has a sinister appearance; off Cape Nonn the sea is red, discolored by the desert sands blown offshore. Beyond Cape Nonn the currents strike the coast obliquely, and heavy swells from the northwest endanger passage through the straight off Cape Juby. [eng] |
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Discoverers Web: Speke and Grant
John Hanning Speke, who had already fought in the British army in India, first became an explorer in 1854, when he joined Richard Burton on a voyage of exploration to Somaliland and eastern Ethiopia. When in 1856 Burton was again sent out to Africa, this time to search for the source of the Nile in East Africa, he again chose Speke as his second-in-command. Together they discovered Lake Tanganyika, and while Burton lay ill, Speke on his own discovered Lake Victoria. For more on these voyages, see Richard Burton. [eng] |
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Discoverers Web: The coast of Africa
In the history of exploration, 1414 is often taken as an important breaking point, the start of the 'Age of Discovery'. In that year, the Portuguese attacked the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One of the Portuguese was Henry (known as 'Henry the Navigator'), the third son of king John I. He noticed that there was an extensive and profitable trade between the Moroccan cities and gold countries to the south. He also wanted to fight the Muslims even harder. [eng] |
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Discoverers Web: Diogo Cao
In 1482 King João II (= John II) of Portugal revived interest in the quest for a sea route around Africa to India, and the first of the newly commissioned voyages was that of Diogo Cão. He left Portugal in midsummer (?) 1482, and coasted West Africa as far as Elmina (in present Ghana) where he took on provisions. Crossing to the Central African coast at Santa Catarina he anchored first in the Bay of Loango, then continued south, placing a stone pillar (padroe) dedicated to St. George at São Antonio de Zaira (= Shark Point), on the southern bank of the mouth of the Rio Poderoso (= Congo, Zaire R.). [eng] |
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László Almásy: the real English patient
(1895-1951), the important Hungarian desert researcher is a real person, while its character in the Oscar- winner film, The English patient, is mostly fictious. The task of this web page is to give a short biography of one of the last romantic geographic explorers of our planet. [eng | deu | hun] |
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Discoverers Web: Covilhao
Portuguese traveller (c.1450-c.1524). Born at Covilha in Beira, Pero da Covilhão had, in his early years, moved to Castile, where he had for seven years been employed in the service of the duke of Medina Sidonia, in Seville. After his return to Portugal in 1474 he had attached himself to King Afonso V and fought in the war of succession for the throne of Castile (1475-79). He also escorted the king on a fruitless journey to France to seek aid from Louis XI. Under Afonso's successor João II, Covilhão served as a Portuguese spy, being sent on missions to Tlemcen and Fez, where he learnt Arabic. [eng] |
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Vita - Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
A romantic figure, once the toast of Paris, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, whom French schoolbooks call "the greatest French explorer of his time," is now relatively unknown even in Europe. Count Pietro di Brazza Savorgnani grew up in Rome, where he spent his boyhood reading adventure novels and poring over atlases, using his imagination to fill in the spaces marked "unknown territory" on maps of Africa. He set his heart on a career in the navy, but Risorgimento Italy did not have a well-established fleet. With the help of a family friend, Pietro entered the French naval academy in 1870; at 21 he adopted French citizenship and officially changed his name. [eng] |
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Mary Kingsley: Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com
Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1862-1900) was a British explorer who made two pioneering trips to West and Central Africa. She was the first European to enter remote parts of Gabon. [eng] |
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Biography: Charles de Foucauld, hermit, servant of the poor (1 Dec 1916)
Charles Eugene, viscount of Foucauld, was born in 1858. He served as a French Army officer in Algieria beginning in 1881, and prepared a mapping of oases in Morocco in 1883. In 1886 he underwent a religious conversion, and in 1890 he joined a Trappist monastery, but soon left to become a solitary hermit in Palestine. In 1901 he went to Algeria, where he eventually settled at Tamanrasset and there lived the life of a missionary priest and prepared a Taureg dictionary. He was killed in an anti-French uprising on 1 December 1916, by those who said that his goodness tended to create friendly feelings toward the French. [eng] |
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Richard Lemon Lander: Explorer of West Africa - EnchantedLearning.com
Richard Lemon Lander (1804-1834) was an English explorer who made three trips to West Africa; he and his brother John were the first Europeans to canoe down the lower Niger River to its delta (where it meets the sea). [eng] |
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1Up Info - Bada y Leblich, Domingo (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
Spanish traveler, known as Ali Bey. Posing as a Muslim, he set out from Cádiz (1803) and traveled through N Africa, Syria, and Arabia, reaching Mecca, of which he fixed the position astronomically. He wrote Voyage d' Ali Bey en Asie et en Afrique (1814). [eng] |
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TRAVELS INTO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA (1795)
by Mungo Park. [eng] |
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