Title:	Zambesi
Authors:	Professors Charles Withers, Paul Nugent, Kenneth King Lawrence, Dritsas Robert Mayhew
Keywords:	David Livingstone and Expeditionary Science in Africa
Issue Date:	2010
Publisher:	I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd
Description:	While researching this book I spent one month in the chilled space (12°C) of the Economic Botany Collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Clutching copies of the entry books for Joseph Hooker’s Museum of Economic Botany, I sought specimens that were collected in the field by members of the Zambesi Expedition. As I opened tiny vials of seeds, manhandled beams of wood or peered into jars of spirit, one after another, the handwritten and printed labels attached to the specimens revealed that, curiously, the Expedition was known by many names. ‘The Zambesi Expedition’, ‘Livingstone’s Second Expedition’, ‘Livingstone’s Zambesi Expedition’, even ‘Dr. Kirk’s Expedition’ all appeared on the various labels. For many specimens there was no particular expedition indicated, only the collector’s name and a date or location provided the clue that this cotton distaff or that block of raw latex was collected during the particular expedition I was interested in. I began to wonder, did the ‘Zambesi Expedition’, which I had been confidently researching, have a name at all?
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/6855
ISBN:	978 1 84511 705 4
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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