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This is a study of the famous controversy between Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke, fellow explorers who quarreled over Speke's claim (which was accurate) to have discovered the source of the Nile in the course of their joint expedition to central Africa in the 1850s.
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The Sad Story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile; or, Was John Hanning Speke a Cad?, Brigitte Carnochan, John Wood
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- 2006
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- Title
- The Sad Story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile; or, Was John Hanning Speke a Cad?
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Brigitte Carnochan, John Wood
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0804753253
- ISBN13
- 9780804753258
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- This is a study of the famous controversy between Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke, fellow explorers who quarreled over Speke's claim (which was accurate) to have discovered the source of the Nile in the course of their joint expedition to central Africa in the 1850s.