John Hanning Speke repeatedly clashed with his partner, the famous explorer and adventurer Richard F. Burton, during his first expedition to the sources of the Nile. When Speke returns to England ahead of Burton and shares most of his findings with the public, he ultimately steals the spotlight from Burton. A legendary personal and scientific conflict ignites. On his second journey, documented here, Speke definitively confirms his spectacular results and enters the history of discovery with the solution to the Nile problem. However, between the lines, Speke's travel diary is much more than just a record of a geographical sensation. Told from a first-hand perspective, the reader learns about the complex cultural and political landscape of Africa.