Adventure, betrayal & beetles: the quest for the source of the Nile
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What Was Going on in Africa at That Time?
Richard Francis Burton was one of these sort of once in a century characters that you rarely, rarely come across. He had been the first Englishman to enter Mecca disguised as a Muslim. But what was also interesting about him is that no matter what he achieved, he was always considered an outsider in his home country. And so it wasn't just obviously about exploration, it was about colonization.
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