Biographies, Books and Articles About Speke
- Burton, Richard Francis (1872). "Captain Speke". Zanzibar. London: John Murray. http://books.google.com/books?id=VkFCAAAAIAAJ&oe=UTF-8.
- Speke by Alexander Maitland (1971) (the only full-length biography).
- Burton and Speke by William Harrison (St Martins/Marek & W.H. Allen 1984).
- A Walk Across Africa by J. A. Grant (London, 1864)
- The Travelling Naturalists by Clare Lloyd. (Study of 18th Century Natural History — Includes Charles Waterton, John Hanning Speke, Henry Seebohm and Mary Kingsley) Contains colour and black and white reproductions.
- Wisnicki, Adrian S. (2008). "Cartographical Quandaries: The Limits of Knowledge Production in Burton’s and Speke’s Search for the Source of the Nile". History in Africa 35: 455-79.
- Wisnicki, Adrian S. (2009). "Charting the Frontier: Indigenous Geography, Arab-Nyamwezi Caravans, and the East African Expedition of 1856-59". Victorian Studies 51.1 (Aut.): 103-37.
- Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure by Tim Jeal (Faber & Faber, London, 2011).
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