Speke's Journal Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile By John Hanning Speke (1868; Dover, 1996) Reviewed by Sean Redmond The Journal of African Travel-Writing, Number 3, September 1997 (pp. 87-91). 1997 The Journal of African Travel-Writing John Hanning Speke's career as an explorer began inauspiciously in 1855, when he and his commander, the swashbuckling Richard Burton, were ...