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The Sad Story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile; or, Was John Hanning Speke a Cad?: Looking at the Evidence W. B. Carnochan
The Sad Story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile; or, Was John Hanning Speke a Cad?: Looking at the Evidence
W. B. Carnochan
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.
160 pages, 2 illustrations, 3 maps
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 25, 2006 |
| ISBN13 | 9780804755719 |
| Publishers | Stanford University Press |
| Pages | 154 |
| Dimensions | 216 × 140 × 15 mm · 204 g |
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