The search for the source of the Nile : correspondence between Captain Richard Burton, Captain John Speke and others, from Burton's unpublished East African Letter Book; together with other related letters and papers in the collection of Quentin Keynes, Esq. / / edited and with a biographical commentary by Donald Young ; and with a preface by Quentin Keynes.

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The search for the source of the Nile : correspondence between Captain Richard Burton, Captain John Speke and others, from Burton's unpublished East African Letter Book; together with other related letters and papers in the collection of Quentin Keynes, Esq. / / edited and with a biographical commentary by Donald Young ; and with a preface by Quentin Keynes.

Burton, Richard Francis, Sir. 1821-1890.

The search for the source of the Nile : correspondence between Captain Richard Burton, Captain John Speke and others, from Burton's unpublished East African Letter Book; together with other related letters and papers in the collection of Quentin Keynes, Esq. / / edited and with a biographical commentary by Donald Young ; and with a preface by Quentin Keynes.

London : Roxburghe Club, 1999.

xxxi, 207 p. : ill., 1 map ; 27 cm.

Map attached to inside back cover, 1 facsim. attached to p. 168, 1 colour photograph attached to verso of added title page.

AFA copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The Russell E. Train Africana Collection.

Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890 -- Correspondence.

Speke, John Hanning, 1827-1864 -- Correspondence.

Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Nile River -- Discovery and exploration.

Keynes, Quentin.

Roxburghe Club.

Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries)

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