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Quest for the Jade Sea : colonial competition around an East African lake

著者: Pascal James Imperato
出版商: Boulder, Co. : Westview Press, 1998.
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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 salt water body one hundred and fifty-five miles long and twenty miles wide; it has long been called the Jade Sea.
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Imperato, Pascal James.
Quest for the Jade Sea.
Boulder, Co. : Westview Press, 1998
(OCoLC)605358491
Online version:
Imperato, Pascal James.
Quest for the Jade Sea.
Boulder, Co. : Westview Press, 1998
(OCoLC)607104396
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所有的著者/提供者: Pascal James Imperato
ISBN: 0813327911 9780813327914 081332792X 9780813327921
OCLC号码: 38258160
描述: xvi, 332 p.,[12] p. of plates., maps. ; 23 cm.
责任: Pascal James Imperato.
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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 salt water body one hundred and fifty-five miles long and twenty miles wide; it has long been called the Jade Sea.

Quest for the Jade Sea examines the fascinating story of colonial competition around this remote lake. Pascal James Imperato's account yields important insights into European colonial policies in East Africa in the late nineteenth century and how these policies came into conflict with a powerful indigenous and independent African state, Ethiopia, which itself was engaged in imperial expansion.

As well as examining the political and diplomatic aspects of colonial competition for Lake Rudolf, Quest for the Jade Sea focuses on the expeditions that traveled there. Many of these were the field expressions of colonial policy; others were undertaken in the interest of scientific and geographical discovery. Whatever the impetus, their success required courage and much suffering on the part of those who led them. Whether as willing agents of larger colonial designs, soldiers intent on promoting their military careers, or explorers who wished to advance scientific knowledge, expedition leaders left behind not only fascinating chronicles of their experiences and discoveries, but also parts of the larger story of colonial competition around an East African lake.

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