Journey into Africa: Keith Johnston, Cartographer and Explorer
National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge, Edinburgh
7pm
Free
Keith Johnston, whose father founded the famous map-making firm W&AK Johnston, was hailed by David Livingston as a greate authority on Africa than himself. Biographer James McCarthy, whose book Journey into Africa, discusses Johnston's life - from his early days in Edinburgh to his untimely death in Tanzania - and his attempt to trace the explorer's grave.
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This true and dramatic story begins with the finding of the last expedition diary of a forgotten Edinburgh cartographer - keith Johnston. The diary was lying in the Royal Geographical Society of Scotland's storeroom and concerns his last, fatal expedition into the interior of Africa.