Edward James Glave

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Edward James Glave

Edward James Glave (born September 13, 1863 in Ripon , † May 12, 1895 in Matadi ) was an English adventurer , author and journalist .

Map of the explorations in the Congo area
Glaves drawing for the Alaska expedition

Life

After graduating from high school, Glave became an administrative clerk in London , but that didn't really satisfy him personally. He entered the service of the Congo Free State and arrived in Vivi on June 12, 1883 . Henry Morton Stanley, who was responsible for the development of the Congo, was impressed by the young Glave Stanley, who had no children of his own, and later saw Glave as his foster son. Glave was allowed to accompany Stanley on the expedition up the Congo. Glave was supposed to set up a station in Lukolela , while Stanley drove on. Glave built the station and he also managed to make good contacts with the locals. He stayed in Lukolela for two years; on November 2, 1885 he was appointed head of Bolobo station and a month later head of Equator station (now Mbandaka ). When his treaty with the Congo Free State expired in April 1886, he returned to England on June 10, 1886. Glave then offered his services to the US diplomat and businessman Henry Shelton Sanford and was back in the Congo since 1887. In 1889 he returned to England again.

Glave went to the United States , where he gave lectures on his experiences in Africa. In New York in 1890, he joined an expedition to Alaska and British Columbia sponsored by Frank Leslie ’s Illustrated Newspaper . His participation was used for advertising by the newspaper. He was the deputy leader and draftsman of the expedition. Glave's travelogues were printed in the newspaper. The following year the second expedition took place over the Chilkoot Pass .

After his travels on the American continent, Glave wanted to go back to Africa, this time to report on the slave trade . With Stanley's help, he managed to convince The Century Magazine to finance the expedition for him. Glave left London on June 25, 1893. His route began on the east coast of Africa at the Rovuma estuary. Glave managed to find the so-called "Livingstone Tree" on Lake Bangweulus , the tree on which the heart of David Livingstone is buried. Via the Congo he reached Lukolela, the place he had built years ago. He collected material for his report on the cruel conditions under Belgian rule. However, this was only published after his death. He died in Matadi on May 12, 1895.

Fonts

literature

  • Robert Bruce Campbell: In Darkest Alaska: Travels and Empire Along the Inside Passage , University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007 ISBN 0812240219 [2]
  • Tim Jeal: Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer , Yale University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780300142235 [3]
  • M. Coosemans: Lemma Edward James Glave , in: Biographie Coloniale Belge , Volume II, 1948, columns 415–417 [4]
  • Peter Edgerly Firchow: Envisioning Africa: Racism and Imperialism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness , University Press of Kentucky, 2000, ISBN 0813133386 , [5]
  • Julie Cruikshank: Do Glaciers Lists? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination , UBC Press, 2007, ISBN 9780774851404 , [6]

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Coosemans: Biography Coloniale Belge , 1947, 415-417
  2. ↑ Jeal: Stanley , 2007, p. 435
  3. ↑ Campbell: In Darkest Alaska , 2007, p. 30
  4. ↑ Campbell: In Darkest Alaska , 2007, p. 35
  5. ↑ Campbell: In Darkest Alaska , 2007, p. 39.
  6. ↑ Jeal: Stanley , 2007, pp. 433-434.
personal data
SURNAME Glave, Edward James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English adventurer, author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Ripon
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1895
Place of death Matadi