Explorers of the Nile. The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure, Paperback - Tim Jeal

Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile.

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Florence 1441. Cosimo de' Medici is in his ascendancy and the city wrestles with the aftermath of one of the greatest crimes of the Renaissance, th...

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During the Cold War, the United States shook off its traditional aversion to alliances and built the most impressive peacetime treaty structure in ...