Arthur Jeremy Mounteney Jephson (1859–1908) was a young adventurer and Africa

Africa

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n explorer, who accompanied H.M.Stanley

Henry Morton Stanley

Sir Henry Morton Stanley, GCB, born John Rowlands , was a Welsh journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone. Upon finding Livingstone, Stanley allegedly uttered the now-famous greeting, "Dr...

 on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition

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 Equatoria, threatened by Mahdist forces...

, 1887-1889.

Emin Pasha Relief Expedition

Jephson's frank, sensitive and open-hearted diary from the expedition was published half a century after his death, and provides a valuable and disturbing record of the late Victorian

Victorian era

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 African expeditions, of which this expedition was to be the last.

Primary sources

• Jephson, A. J. Mounteney : Diary, Edited by Dorothy Middleton, Hakluyt Society
  Hakluyt Society
  Founded in 1846, the Hakluyt Society is a registered charity based in London, England, which seeks to advance knowledge and education by the publication of scholarly editions of primary records of voyages, travels and other geographical material...
  
  , 1969
• Stanley, Henry Morton
  Henry Morton Stanley
  Sir Henry Morton Stanley, GCB, born John Rowlands , was a Welsh journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone. Upon finding Livingstone, Stanley allegedly uttered the now-famous greeting, "Dr...
  
   : In Darkest Africa, 1890

Secondary works

• Daniel Liebowitz; Charles Pearson : The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo, 2005, ISBN 0-393-05903-0
• Moorehead, Alan
  Alan Moorehead
  Alan McCrae Moorehead OBE was a war correspondent and author of popular histories, most notably two books on the nineteenth-century exploration of the Nile, The White Nile and The Blue Nile . Australian-born, he lived in England, and Italy, from 1937.-Biography:Alan Moorehead was born in...
  
   : The White Nile, London, 1960, 1971
• Smith, Iain R. : The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1886-1890, Oxford University Press
  Oxford University Press
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  , 1972
• Gould, Tony
  Tony Gould
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   : In Limbo: The Story of Stanley's Rear Column, David & Charles
  David & Charles
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   1980 ISBN 0-241-10125-5
• A.J. Mounteney Jephson, Diary, Edited by Dorothy Middleton, Hakluyt Society
  Hakluyt Society
  Founded in 1846, the Hakluyt Society is a registered charity based in London, England, which seeks to advance knowledge and education by the publication of scholarly editions of primary records of voyages, travels and other geographical material...
  
  1969

Note: The name is also spelled "Mountenay"