Arthur J. M. Jephson

Arthur Jeremy Mounteney Jephson (1859-1908) was a young adventurer and African explorer, who accompanied H.M.Stanley on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 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 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, 1969
* Stanley, Henry Morton : "In Darkest Africa", 1890

econdary works

* Daniel Liebowitz; Charles Pearson : "The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo", 2005, ISBN 0-393-05903-0
* Moorehead, Alan : "The White Nile", London, 1960, 1971
* Smith, Iain R. : "The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1886-1890", Oxford University Press, 1972
* Gould, Tony : "In Limbo: The Story of Stanley's Rear Column", David & Charles 1980 ISBN 0-241-10125-5
*A.J. Mounteney Jephson, "Diary", Edited by Dorothy Middleton, Hakluyt Society 1969

Note: The name is also spelled "Mountenay"