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  • Millard, Candice, author.
     
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  • Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890 -- Travel -- Nile River.
     
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  • Speke, John Hanning, 1827-1864 -- Travel -- Nile River.
     
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  • Bombay, Sidi Mubarak -- Travel -- Nile River.
     
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  • Explorers -- Nile River -- History -- 19th century.
     
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  • Nile River -- Discovery and exploration.
     
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    River of the gods : genius, courage, and betrayal in the search for the source of the Nile / Candice Millard.
    by Millard, Candice, author.
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    New York : Doubleday, [2022]
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  • Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890 -- Travel -- Nile River.
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  • Speke, John Hanning, 1827-1864 -- Travel -- Nile River.
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  • Bombay, Sidi Mubarak -- Travel -- Nile River.
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  • Explorers -- Nile River -- History -- 19th century.
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  • Nile River -- Discovery and exploration.
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    9780385543101 (hardcover) :
    0385543107 (hardcover) :
    Description: 
    xii, 349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
    Edition: 
    First edition.
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    Prologue: Obsession -- Part one: Some gallant heart. A blaze of light ; Shadows ; Bond for our blood ; The Abban ; The enemy is upon us -- Part two: What might have been, what would have been. Into the mouth of Hell ; What a curse is a heart ; Horror vacui ; Bombay ; Death was written ; An old enemy ; Tanganyika ; To the end of the world -- Part three: Fury. The knives are sheathed ; 'Twas me he shot ; An exile's dream ; Hard as bricks -- Part four: The malignant tongues of friends. The prince ; Damn their souls ; Neston Park ; The weary heart grows cold -- Epilogue: Ashes.
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    Set against the backdrop of the race to exploit Africa by the colonial powers, a story of courage and adventure brings to life the rivalry between two enemies--a decorated soldier and a young aristocrat/Army officer--as they set out to find the mysterious headwaters of the Nile River.
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