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Richard Lemon Lander (8 February 1804 – 6 February 1834) was a British explorer of western Africa. He and his brother John were the first Europeans to follow the course of the River Niger, and discover that it led to the Atlantic.
Richard Lemon Lander was a British explorer of West Africa who traced the course of the lower Niger River to its delta. He accompanied the Scottish explorer Hugh Clapperton as a servant on his second expedition to the region now lying within northern Nigeria.
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Richard Lander was a Cornish explorer. The son of an Innkeeper, he was born in 1804 in what later became the Dolphin Inn, in Truro. Lander’s ambition for his future began at an early age. He wanted to travel the world and realised that London was the place to be, to gain this experience.
A Cornish traveller of the early-19th century, explorer of West Africa and of the mighty Niger river, Richard Lander was captured and held for ransom by tribesmen, before dying on his third expedition aged just 29.
Richard Lander is a Principal Program Manager on the .NET Core team. He works on making .NET Core work great in memory-limited Docker containers, on ARM hardware like the Raspberry Pi, and enabling GPIO programming and IoT scenarios.
Richard Lemon Lander (1804-1834) was an English explorer who made three trips to West Africa; he and his brother John were the first Europeans to canoe down the lower Niger River to its delta (where it meets the sea).
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The son of an English innkeeper, Richard Lander spent his teenage years as a personal assistant to travelers to the West Indies, the European continent, and the Cape Colony in southern Africa. In that capacity he accompanied Hugh Clapperton [ see CLAPPERTON ] on the captain’s second expedition to West Africa and was the only European survivor.
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