Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
by:
Clive Chafer (author)
Tim Jeal (author)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781452635422 (1452635420)
Publish date: December 26th 2011
Publisher: Tantor Media
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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