RAKE COMMENDS
Oct 12, 2018
3 minutes
by benedict browne
In the mid 19th century, David Livingstone, God-fearing autodidact and missionary, lost his enthusiasm for efforts to convert the African people. He decided to discover the world, in the process leading Britain into a new era of discovery by a new breed of operator: the explorer. His obsession was focused on the whereabouts of the source of the Nile, which also has names such as John Hanning Speke and Richard Burton (not Richard Burton) associated with it. The
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