The british under the auspices of the royal geographical society sent explorers to map out various portions of the world with t...  Read More

The british under the auspices of the royal geographical society sent explorers to map out various portions of the world with the aim of expanding their colonial empires  Read Less

Millard spent five years sifting through archives and traveling the world to write it and she ended up with the best book i’ve ...  Read More

Millard spent five years sifting through archives and traveling the world to write it and she ended up with the best book i’ve read in a while  Read Less

While this book does him more justice than past accounts it does not treat his story with the kind of rigor and detail given to...  Read More

While this book does him more justice than past accounts it does not treat his story with the kind of rigor and detail given to burton and speke  Read Less

At any rate my previous reads of millards work noted a perceptive eye a great ability to weave tedious material into an engagin...  Read More

At any rate my previous reads of millards work noted a perceptive eye a great ability to weave tedious material into an engaging narrative and an ability to reconstruct the sense of the time and milieu associated with the story  Read Less

This book like millards earlier book river of doubt should have been a fivestar book

This book like millards earlier book river of doubt should have been a fivestar book  Read Less

Its possible these elements of his life werent detailed because this book centers on the hunt for the source of the nile but th...  Read More

Its possible these elements of his life werent detailed because this book centers on the hunt for the source of the nile but that doesnt fully explain the omission  Read Less