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Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
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Seven Victorian adventurers braved spear wounds, malaria, flesh-eating ulcers and illness as they competed to find the source of the White Nile – the last great challenge in the field of land exploration.
Tim Jeal uncovers the extraordinary characters at the heart of this drama and explains what drove them to brave so many physically and psychologically damaging experiences in their quest.
Jeal is the author of acclaimed biographies of Livingstone and Baden-Powell. His memoir Swimming with My Father was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize for Autobiography. His biography of Henry Morton Stanley was named Sunday Times Biography of the Year and won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Biography in 2007.
‘Tim Jeal’s masterly book ... can safely supplant Alan Moorehead’s 1960 classic, The White Nile ... Jeal also knows how to tell a fabulous story, and he lets old-fashioned epic adventure sit at the heart of his fine book.’ - The Sunday Times
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