Verney Lovett Cameron

"He walked across Africa"
Cameron as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, July 1876

Verney Lovett Cameron (1 July 1844 – 24 March 1894) was an English traveller in Central Africa and the first European to cross (1875) equatorial Africa from sea to sea.[1]

  1. ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1901). "Cameron, Verney Lovett" . Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.