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Noun: John Rowlands
  1. Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)
    - Stanley, Henry M. Stanley, Sir Henry Morton Stanley

Type of: adventurer, explorer, journalist, journo [Brit, informal], penman [informal], scribbler [informal], scribe [informal]

Encyclopedia: John Rowlands