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Arthur H. (Arthur Henry) Sharp

Best known as the co-author of a vivid turn-of-the-century African travel narrative, this writer helped record one of the era’s most ambitious overland journeys. His surviving bibliography is small, but his work still carries the energy of expedition memoir and colonial-era adventure writing.

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From the Cape to Cairo: The First Traverse of Africa from South to North

From the Cape to Cairo: The First Traverse of Africa from South to North

by Ewart Scott Grogan, Arthur H. (Arthur Henry) Sharp

About the author

Arthur H. Sharp, also listed as Arthur Henry Sharp, is remembered chiefly for co-authoring From the Cape to Cairo: The First Traverse of Africa from South to North with Ewart S. Grogan. The book was published in 1900 and recounts the pair’s journey across Africa between the late 1890s and 1900.

Available catalog records and public-domain library sources consistently connect Sharp with that expedition book, and some reader databases also link his name with Sport in Portuguese East Africa. Reliable biographical detail beyond his published work is scarce, so much of his life remains unclear in easily confirmed sources.

What does come through clearly is the kind of writing he is associated with: firsthand travel, danger, hunting, and the long-distance expedition narrative popular with readers of the period. For modern listeners, Sharp’s work offers a direct window into the style, attitudes, and storytelling rhythms of late Victorian and early Edwardian adventure nonfiction.