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First edition. Grant (1827-1892) was invited by John Hanning Speke, in 1859, to join the Royal Geographical Society Nile expedition. ‘Speke hoped to prove his contention that Lake Victoria, which he had discovered in 1858, was the source of the Nile. The two explorers and their porters now embarked on the “long walk” on which Palmerston was later to remark and so provide Grant with the title of his book, A Walk across Africa (1864). It took them inland from the east African coast to Tabora and then northwards around the western shores of Lake Victoria to the kingdom of Buganda and ultimately down the Nile valley to Egypt’ (ODNB).

Czech p. 66 (‘A monumental work of exploration’).

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