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The Great African Expedition

Posted on
March 10, 2012 by adventeer

Anthropologist and modern day African explorer Julian Monroe Fisher has
announces a five year-seven expeditions-Ethnographical research project deep in
the heart of Africa. Entitled, ‘THE GREAT AFRICAN EXPEDITION – A 21st CENTURY
ETHNOGRAPHICAL FIELD RESEARCH OF AFRICA’, Fisher will conduct an Ethnographical
documentation of specific regions of Africa by retracing the African
expeditionary routes of the famed Victorian explorers to include Speke, Grant,
Burton, Baker, Wissman, Cameron, De Brazza, Livingstone and Stanley.

The objectives of the project will be to compare the
19th century Ethnographic documentation of the African tribal kingdoms gathered
during the expeditions of the Victorian age with the realities of 21st century
Africa. Phase one of the project will begin in March, 2012, with Fisher
travelling on an overland journey up the Nile River from Cairo, Egypt, to
Khartoum, Sudan. During Phase Two later this year the explorer will travel from
Khartoum up the Nile and across the new nation of South Sudan to Lake Albert in
Uganda. He will then circumnavigate Lake Albert, then follow the Semliki River
to the Lamia River tributary that flows down from the Rwenzori Mountains. He
will follow that tributary up to the glacier on Mount Stanley. For the
expeditionary journeys Fisher will implore the use of dugout canoes, feluccas,
ferry boats, camels, donkeys, horses and on foot.

Julian Monroe Fisher is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in London
and an International Fellow with the British Chapter of The Explorers Club in
New York City. Between 2007 and 2011 Fisher had the honour of carrying the
Explorers Club Flag on five consecutive research expeditions to the African
continent. In 2008 he and his team were
accredited by The Ugandan Wildlife
Authority for establishing a new route in the Rwenzori Mountains, the famed
‘Mountains of the Moon’. In 2011 the explorer walked large portions of the
African continent between the Indian Ocean coast of Mozambique and the Atlantic
Coast of Angola during an expedition dubbed ‘EQUATORIA – A Walk Across
Africa’.

See the official website about the “Great African Expedition” here.
The Official Website of Julian Monroe Fisher
is http://www.julianmonroefisher.com/.

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