Search for the Nile's Source - The Ruined Reputation of John Petherick, Nineteenth-Century Welsh Explorer — The Ruined Reputation of John Petherick, Nineteenth-Century Welsh Explorer

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Yn y cofiant hwn i John Petherick, mae John Humphries yn ystyried y cwestiwn a oedd y fforiwr a'r peiriannydd Cymreig o'r bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg yn fasnachwr caethweision ai peidio, neu a ddylai dderbyn clod am ei gyfraniad at yr ymgyrch i ddarganfod tarddiad yr afon Nîl.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

In this book, John Humphries questions whether John Petherick was a slave trader or a victim of conspiracy on the Nile. The source of the Nile had long eluded and tormented explorers, and John Hanning Speke's discovery of Lake Victoria in 1858 elevated him to the pantheon of heroes of African exploration, alongside Livingstone and Stanley.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

Chapter 1: From Merthyr to the Pyramids. Chapter 2: Egypt and the search for coal. Chapter 3: The Missing Years. Chapter 4: Khartoum, Ivory and Slaves. Chapter 5: Exploration and Trade. Chapter 6: The Promise. Chapter 7: The Journey. Chapter 8: The Race. Chapter 9: The Succour Dodge. Chapter 10: A Very Public Quarrel. Chapter 11: Unfinished Business. Conclusion

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

John Humphries, a former newspaper editor and foreign correspondent, draws upon previously unavailable documents and sources to shed new light on moments in history ranging from the Chartist Uprising, the Mexican Revolution, Hitler’s ‘spies’, and Freedom Fighters of the 20th century. This is his fifth work of non-fiction.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

This first biography of Petherick places him at the centre of one of the great discoveries in African exploration – and as the focus of a dispute that rocked the geographical establishment. Was this Welsh mining engineer a rogue, as portrayed by some, or the victim of a conspiracy that destroyed his reputation and denied him a share of the credit for his part in one of the greatest feats in African exploration? The part played by John Petherick in the discovery of the source of the Nile was ignored after he was branded a slave trader by Speke, and the controversy that followed ended with Petherick ruined and Speke dead.