The Sad Story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile; or, Was John Hanning Speke a Cad?: Looking at the Evidence

The Sad Story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile; or, Was John Hanning Speke a Cad?: Looking at the Evidence Carnochan W. B. Wydawca: Stanford University Press Data wydania: 2006 ISBN: 9780804755719 Liczba stron: 154 Format: 140 x 216 x 15 Rodzaj oprawy: Paperback / softback Opis produktu: 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.