Drought, desiccation and discourse: Missionary correspondence and nineteenth-century climate change in central southern Africa

Geographical Journal

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 33-47

  Endfield, Georgina H ^a   Nash, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climatic variability; David Livingstone; Desiccation; Documentary evidence; Missionary correspondence; Southern Africa

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DESICCATION; DROUGHT; NINETEENTH CENTURY;

(SOUTHERN); AFRICA;

EID: 0036095444     PISSN: 00167398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-4959.00036     Document Type: Article

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