Word: speke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHITE NILE, by Alan Moorehead. The last half of the 19th century saw the Nile traced to its sources and the vast, hostile area it drained subdued by such peculiarly Victorian heroes as Burton, Speke, Livingstone, Stanley, "Chinese" Gordon and Kitchener. A too-brief book that is the most readable of the year's popular histories...
...readable but perhaps too brief account of those redoubtable Victorians-Burton, Speke, Stanley, Livingstone, Gordon, Kitchener-who explored the upper reaches of the Nile, taking pestilence and polygamy as they found them...