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Explorers

Images

  • Henry Morton Stanley meeting David Livingstone at Ujiji, in Africa. Coloured wood engraving by H. Hall after H.M. Stanley, ca.1872.
  • James Scott, Australian medical student lost in the Himalayas for forty-three days without food, drinking from a snowball to rehydrate in the afternoon sun. Drawing by M. H. Boscott, 1993.
  • David Livingstone (?) and his followers on a boat, attacked by hippopotamus. Lithograph.
  • David Livingstone arriving at Lake Ngami in 1849. Lithograph.
  • Lake Ngami: Africans and European explorers on its bank. Wood engraving by J.W. Whymper after A. Rider.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Encyclopedia of exploration, 1800 to 1850 : a comprehensive reference guide to the history and literature of exploration, travel and colonization between the years 1800 and 1850 / Raymond John Howgego.

    Howgego, Raymond John, 1946- | Date: [2004], ©2004
    • Pictures

    David Livingstone. Photograph.

    | Reference: 13095i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    David Livingstone, holding a gun, attacked by a lion; Africans and a missionary in the foreground. Etching.

    | Reference: 561229i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Monument to Sir John Franklin in the Painted Hall at Greenwich Hospital. Wood engraving after R. Westmacott, 1859.

    | Date: 1859 | Reference: 30254i
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0001328: Reproduction of a portrait of Dr. Justus Karl Hasskarl (1811-1894), German explorer and botanist

    | Date: 15 October 1930 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/12/39
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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