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Quest For The Jade Sea: Colonial Competition Around An East African Lake PDF

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Praise for Quest the Tade Sea A vivid and well-researched account of the men who led . . . . . . expeditions in Northern Kenya. Entertaining reading for anyone interested in colonial travel literature . . . it is a valuable resource for the student and scholar of Africa's past. History A well-researched overview of the nineteenth-century . . . geographical exploration around Lake Turltana. Its clear style and rich details will appeal to a wide audience. African Studies Quarterly In this book Pascal Imperato writes engagingly and sympathetically about a succession of European travelers to the shores of Lake Turkana in the late nineteenth century. The book is important for two reasons. First, it helps us to understand the motives and ~udgeth e achievements of these men in the light of the social norms and cultural values of their own time. Second, it brings together in a readable and accessible form, a vast amount of previously scattered information about one of the last episodes in the story of European competition for colonial lands in Africa. David mrtorr! Director, Refugee Studies Programme University of Oxford Interesting, extremely well researched, rich with rare and intriguing anecdotes, Quest for the lade Sea is a must for lovers of Africa and its complex, irresistible history. It is compelling reading. I could not put it down. Kuki Galfmaam author of I Dreamed of Africa The Jade Sea lured a series of mystical idealists, amateur scientists, wealthy hunters, colonial agents and greedy desperadoes to set off from the coast and walk to it across the arid expanses which separate the Kenyan and Ethiopian highlands. Dr. Imperato makes each of their individualities shine while setting each in the historical context of mean and aggressive colonial rivalries. I have learned a great deal pleasurably. Dr. Paul Baxter author of The Boran of Northern Kenya Quest for the lade Sea is a vivid and overdue account of one of the most intriguing rivalries of discovery in the history of colonial Africa: Bartle Bail author of Safari: A Chronical of Adventure and The mite Rhino Hotel Entertaining for the casual reader and a mine of information for the student and scholar, everyone can now proceed through eastern African history with more confidence and conviction than in the past. ROb ert Q. C~l1r"nrs Professor of History, Emeritus Univmsity of Callifornr'a at Santa Rarbara This page intentionally left blank for the Quest Sea Jade - A Mcmbcr of the Pcrseus Books Group AXI rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America, No part of this publication may be repxoduccd or transmitted in any form ar by any xneans, electronic or mechani- cal, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the pubfisher. Gopyri&t O 1998 by Pascal James Imperato. Published in 1998 in the United States of America by Westview Press, 5500 Central Av- enue, Boulder, Colnradcz R0301 -2877, and in the United Kingdom by Westview Press, 12 Hid" Copse Road, Curnnor Hill, Oxford OX2 9JJ Library of Congress Gatalugng-in-Publieation Data Imperato, Pascal Tames Quest for the jade Sea : colonial competition around an East Affican lake / Pascal Iames Imperato, p. cm. Includes biblio~aphicalr eferences and index, ISBM 0-8 133-2791- l [he)- --ISBN 0-8 133-2792-X( pb) 1. RudoXfp Lake, Region (Kenya and EtXriopia~Discoverya nd ewlaration-Etlxopean. 2. RudoXf! Lake, Region {Kenyaa nd Etl~iopia)-Politics and governlnent. d. Great Britain-Foreign relations-Ethiopia. 4, Ethiopia-Fnreim relation*Great Britain, I, Titje. DTiS34.K7,5147 X998 967.62' 7-de2 1 98-4983 CIF" Tile paper used in this publication xneets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984, Dedicated with admiration and affection to the Reverend I)a& Tablino, who has given a lifetime of service to the peoples of the lake This page intentionally left blank Contents List czf I~lustuatl'c~ns AcknowIedgments Introduction x The Sources of the Nile z A Whispexcd Rcality 3 A Race Across Maasai Land 4 Visitors from Vienna 5 An American Approaches from the Sr~uth G An. A~nexicanA rrives from the North 7 Sp~rtslin-cna nd Ivory Hunters 8 Italians at the Source c) Showdown on the Uppex Nile xo An Orthadrrx Partnership r s A Cour;tlfeous Young Soldier 12 D~ctaSr mith Returns I 3 Replacing the Union Jacks Vif

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The last of the major African lakes to be visited by European travelers in the late nineteenth century, Lake Rudolf lies in the eastern arm of the great Rift Valley in present-day northern Kenya, near the Ethiopian border. Also known as Lake Turkana, Lake Rudolf is a large saltwater body two hundred
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