Arthur Jephson

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Photo of the participants in the rescue expedition, 1890, far right Arthur Jephson

Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson (born October 8, 1859 in Brentwood , Essex , † October 22, 1908 in Sunninghill , Berkshire ) was a British explorer and adventurer .

Life

He accompanied the expedition of Henry Morton Stanley (1887-1889) to the liberation of Emin Pasha . Jephson was best known for his diary from the expedition, published in 1969.

Works

  • Stories Told in an African Forest by Grown-Up Children of Africa . Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-0217054942
  • Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator; A Story of Nine Months' Experience in the Last of the Soudan Provinces . Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-0217467964

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Felix Driver: Jephson, Arthur Jermy Mounteney (1858-1908) . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved January 11, 2012