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Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure

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From the most efficient selling writer of Stanley a riveting account of the explorers who risked the whole thing in their seek for the source of the Nile Book jacket Nothing obsessed explorers of the mid nineteenth century more than the quest to discover the source of the White Nile It was once the planet s most elusive secret the prize coveted above all others Between 1856 and 1876 six larger than life men and one strange woman accepted the challenge Showing extreme courage and resilience Richard Burton John Hanning Speke James Augustus Grant Samuel Baker Florence von Sass David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley risked their lives and reputations in the fierce competition Award winning writer Tim Jeal deploys fascinating new research to offer a vivid tableau of the unmapped Dark Continent its jungle deprivations and the courage in addition to malicious tactics of the explorers On a couple of forays launched into east and central Africa the travelers passed through almost impenetrable terrain and suffered the ravages of flesh eating ulcers paralysis malaria deep spear wounds and even death They found out Lakes Tanganyika and Victoria and became the first white people to encounter the kingdoms of Buganda and Bunyoro Jeal weaves the story with authentic new detail and examines the tragic unintended legacy of the Nile search that still casts a long shadow over the people of Uganda and Sudan

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