The story of Sir Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning
Speke--their friendship, bitter rivalry, and the two thousand year
search for the source of the Nile--is almost too good to be true.
Imagine a story in which two daring adventurers set off to solve
the greatest and oldest of geographical mysteries: the source of
the Nile. Their journey begins with great fanfare. The young
friends travel deep into a forbidding and uncharted wilderness.
Their path is fraught with peril: poisonous snakes, deadly spiders,
man-eating beasts, and cannibals. Their bodies are wracked by
disease. But there is also pleasure, for the explorers are to the
liking of the jungle women.
In the end, the mystery is solved.
But there's a catch. Each man has come up with a different
answer.
They fight. Their friendship shatters. They split up in the heart
of Africa and race back to civilization, each man striving to be
the first to announce his findings to an adoring public. The man
who wins the race is lionized as a national hero, only to have his
claims publicly repudiated when the second explorer straggles home.
The feud becomes an international sensation. A master showman
arrives on the scene, one who decrees that the answer will be
decided with a single public debate. It will be a massive
spectacle, in the manner of a heavyweight prize fight. The answer
will literally change the course of history.
The world is watching and waiting, eager to know the outcome. The
loser will be disgraced. The winner is guaranteed fame and
riches.
But the result is far more dramatic than anyone has a right to
expect.
This, written with thrilling, page-turning, novelistic verve, is
that story.
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