Books by Alexander Maitland

A one-volume history of exploration told through the stories of the Royal Geographical Society's remarkable gold-medal winners

John Hanning Speke was one of the Victorian explorers and his famous achievement was the discovery in 1862 of the main source of the White Nile in Lake Victoria Nyanza. He joined the Indian Army, and after serving for ten years he joined Sir Richard Burton's abortive expedition to Somaliland. This biography offers a full-length study of Speke.