Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and the Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure. Tim Jeal
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571249763 (0571249760)
Publish date: August 1st 2012
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pages no: 528
Edition language: English
bookshelves: radio-4, autumn-2011, history, african-continent, adventure, nonfiction, published-2011 Read from September 09 to 16, 2011 Book of the Week and doesn't it look fab! No matter how many times one has read of these explorations and adventures they never wear enthusiasm out.blurb - Not...
There isn’t much new here in terms of Stanley and Livingston. The focus, however, is on the effects of such exploration as well as the disagreements that resulted among the explorers. The narrator’s voice does grow on you some what.
Book of the Week and doesn't it look fab! No matter how many times one has read of these explorations and adventures they never wear enthusiasm out.blurb - Nothing obsessed explorers of the mid-nineteenth century more than the quest to discover the source of the White Nile. It was the planet's most ...
What an extraordinary bunch of people - fascinating to know what drove them on.
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