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This book is interesting, but eventually it is a tragedy. What stands out in this book is besides the wonderful writing style is how well this book was researched. Of all these books one stands out as the most entertaining, well-written, and has becom... Read More
Millard does a good job of balancing richard burton and john speke. Speke's hubris is a small mirror of the western mindset of the 1800's. Millard in the 21st century is preferable to traveling with burton and speke in the 19th.
Her other skill is her ability to delve into the minds of complicated human beings in all their genius and foibles. It is very impressive how she supports her story with supporting quotes so the reader doesn't have to wonder about any suppositions.
Cons
Tim jeal’s brilliant and unbiased book ‘explorers of the nile’ is more objective. But only an * assumes.
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Quality
Providing historical content added depth to this entertaining and educational book
All that exploration required at that time the money shortfalls that caused endless hardship and the strange sometimes detrimen... Read More
These two guys are super problematic with their views on the equality of men and religion
” millard writes “the royal geographical society presented burton with the founder’s medal… burton praised his companion speke…
Packaging/appearance
The subject of this book is the hunt for the source of the nile river in the 1850s
Competitiveness
Based on her previous books i had no doubts about preordering “river of the gods
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I do wish there had been more content about sidi bombay but understand that may be due to lack of historical records
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Candice millard is back in full form for a tale of exploration adventure and betrayal
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Put together a meticulous and dedicated geographer linguist ethnographer and poet and put him together with a trigger happy delusional narcissist as his second in command of an expedition
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The fact that they both returned alive is amazing but what happened afterward perhaps shouldnt be
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You can feel the the thorns and the bugs
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You tense during the descriptions of vicious ambushes
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In fact the world and all its marvels existed without the british having discovered it
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Spekes hubris is a small mirror of the western mindset of the 1800s
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