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Ewart Scott Grogan
1874–1967
Best known for an extraordinary trek from Cape Town to Cairo, this English explorer turned his appetite for adventure into books that still carry the energy of the journey. His writing offers a vivid window into late Victorian travel and the imperial world he moved through.
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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
Born in London in 1874, Ewart Scott Grogan became famous as an explorer, entrepreneur, and later a political figure in East Africa. He is best remembered for becoming the first person widely recorded to travel overland from Cape Town to Cairo, a feat that grew out of a very personal challenge and helped make his name at the turn of the twentieth century.
Grogan wrote about that journey in From the Cape to Cairo and later published Through Africa from the Cape to Cairo, books valued for their pace, detail, and firsthand view of African travel at the time. Beyond writing, he spent much of his life in British East Africa, where he was involved in farming, business, and settler politics.
He died in 1967 at the age of 92. Today he remains a striking and complicated historical figure: remembered both for the boldness of his travels and for the role he played in the colonial world that shaped his career.