{"product_id":"the-sad-story-of-burton-speke-and-the-nile-or-was-john-hanning-speke-a-cad-9780804755719","title":"The Sad Story of Burton Speke and the Nile or Was","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Sad Store of Burton, Speke, and the Nile\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating whodunit...\" -- \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Carnochan investigates the history of the case through a careful reading of contemporary accounts, making for a strangely engaging tale that's part detective story, part textual analysis.\" -- \u003ci\u003eGeographical Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A detective story with an important scholarly subtext, a rattling good travelers' tale that is also a deep and unresolved tragedy, \u003ci\u003eThe Sad Story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile\u003c\/i\u003e holds the reader's attention from beginning to end.\" -- Nicolas Barker * editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Book Collector\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Employing a close but never pedantic reading of the published writings of Speke and Burton, Carnochan gives us a fuller, more nuanced and insightful analysis of their clash of personalities and its consequences than we can find elsewhere. This is an astute, engaging, and beautifully written study.\" -- Dane Kennedy * George Washington University *\u003cbr\u003e\"Bliss Carnochan cuts through the mythology surrounding Burton's character and the events leading to Speke's tragic death with a lucid and sensitive analysis of the documents. He does so with relish for his tale and no loss of its inherent drama.\" -- Ann Schlee * Novelist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Sad Story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile; or, Was John Hanning Speke a   Cad?  Looking at the Evidence  W. B. Carnochan  Stanford General Books  An Imprint of Stanford University Press  Stanford, California 2006","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405568155991,"sku":"9780804755719","price":18.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804755719.jpg?v=1730492865","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-sad-story-of-burton-speke-and-the-nile-or-was-john-hanning-speke-a-cad-9780804755719","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}