Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson (1859–1908) was an English merchant seaman and army officer. He became an adventurer and
Africa
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explorer, who accompanied
H. M. Stanley on the
Emin Pasha Relief Expedition
The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1886 to 1889 was one of the last major European expeditions into the interior of Africa in the nineteenth century, ostensibly to the relief of Emin Pasha, General Charles Gordon's besieged governor of Equato ...
, 1887–1889.
Emin Pasha Relief Expedition
Jephson's diary from the expedition was published half a century after his death, and provides a record of the late
Victorian
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African expeditions, of which this expedition was to be the last.
References and further reading
Primary sources
* Jephson, A. J. Mounteney : ''Diary'', Edited by Dorothy Middleton,
Hakluyt Society
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, 1969
*
Stanley, Henry Morton : ''
In Darkest Africa
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'', 1890
Secondary works
*
Liebowitz, Daniel;
Pearson, Charles : ''The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo'', 2005,
*
Moorehead, Alan : ''The White Nile'', London, 1960, 1971
*
Smith, Iain R. : ''The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1886-1890'',
Oxford University Press
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, 1972
*
Gould, Tony : ''In Limbo: The Story of Stanley's Rear Column'',
David & Charles 1980
Note: The name is also spelled "Mountenay"
Notes
1859 births
1908 deaths
English explorers
Explorers of Africa
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