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050 00 $aDT434.R75$bI47 1998
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100 1 $aImperato, Pascal James.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79022175
245 10 $aQuest for the Jade Sea :$bcolonial competition around an East African lake /$cPascal James Imperato.
260 $aBoulder, CO :$bWestview Press,$c1998.
300 $axvi, 332 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aThe last of the major African lakes to be visited by European travelers in the late nineteenth century, Lake Rudolf lies in the eastern arm of the great Rift Valley in present-day northern Kenya, near the Ethiopian border. Also known as Lake Turkana, Lake Rudolf is a large salt water body one hundred and fifty-five miles long and twenty miles wide; it has long been called the Jade Sea.
520 8 $aQuest for the Jade Sea examines the fascinating story of colonial competition around this remote lake. Pascal James Imperato's account yields important insights into European colonial policies in East Africa in the late nineteenth century and how these policies came into conflict with a powerful indigenous and independent African state, Ethiopia, which itself was engaged in imperial expansion.
520 8 $aAs well as examining the political and diplomatic aspects of colonial competition for Lake Rudolf, Quest for the Jade Sea focuses on the expeditions that traveled there. Many of these were the field expressions of colonial policy; others were undertaken in the interest of scientific and geographical discovery. Whatever the impetus, their success required courage and much suffering on the part of those who led them.
520 8 $aWhether as willing agents of larger colonial designs, soldiers intent on promoting their military careers, or explorers who wished to advance scientific knowledge, expedition leaders left behind not only fascinating chronicles of their experiences and discoveries, but also parts of the larger story of colonial competition around an East African lake.
651 0 $aRudolf, Lake, Region (Kenya and Ethiopia)$xDiscovery and exploration$xEuropean.
651 0 $aRudolf, Lake, Region (Kenya and Ethiopia)$xPolitics and government.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xForeign relations$zEthiopia.
651 0 $aEthiopia$xForeign relations$zGreat Britain.
852 00 $bglx$hDT434.R75$iI47 1998