Download Audiobook River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard in English

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  The harrowing story of one of many nice feats of exploration of all time and its difficult legacy—from the New York Occasions bestselling writer of The River of Doubt and Future of the RepublicFor millennia the placement of the Nile River’s headwaters was shrouded in thriller. Within the nineteenth century, there was  a frenzy of curiosity in historical Egypt. On the identical time, European powers despatched off waves of explorations meant to map the unknown corners of the globe—and prolong their colonial empires.   Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke had been despatched by the Royal Geographical Society to say the prize for England. Burton spoke twenty-nine languages, and was a embellished soldier. He was additionally mercurial, refined, and an iconoclastic atheist. Speke was a younger aristocrat and Military officer decided to make his mark, obsessed with looking, Burton’s reverse in temperament and beliefs.   From the beginning the 2 males clashed. They might endure great hardships, sickness, and fixed setbacks. Two years in, deep within the African inside, Burton grew to become too sick to press on, however Speke did, and claimed he discovered the supply in an important lake that he christened Lake Victoria. After they returned to England, Speke rushed to take credit score, disparaging Burton. Burton disputed his declare, and Speke launched one other expedition to Africa to show it. The 2 grew to become venomous enemies, with the general public siding with the extra charismatic Burton, to Speke’s nice envy. The day earlier than they had been to publicly debate, Speke shot himself.   But there was a 3rd man on each expeditions, his title obscured by imperial annals, whose exploits had been much more extraordinary. This was Sidi Mubarak Bombay, who was enslaved and shipped from his residence village in East Africa to India. When the person who bought him died, he made his method into the native Sultan’s military, and ultimately traveled again to Africa, the place he used his resourcefulness, linguistic prowess and uncooked braveness to forge a residing as a information. With out Bombay and males like him, who led, carried, and guarded the expedition, neither Englishman would have come near the headwaters of the Nile, or maybe even survived.   In River of the Gods Candice Millard has written one other peerless story of braveness and journey, set towards the backdrop of the race to take advantage of Africa by the colonial powers.