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Candice will be in conversation with Alex at 6:30 p.m. We’ve been anxiously awaiting this new book and can’t wait to welcome her back to Columbia. Many of you will know Candice from her pervious books and her appearance at an early edition of the Unbound Book Festival. Illus.We are extremely excited to welcome to Skylark the New York Times best selling author of multiple acclaimed histories, Candice Millard, to discuss her newest work, River of the Gods. Millard’s lushly detailed adventure story keeps a steady eye on the racial power dynamics involved in this imperialist endeavor and brilliantly illuminates the characters of Burton, Speke, and Bombay. Subsequent explorations, in which Bombay took part, proved Speke’s theory. Burton maintained that Speke had failed to settle the question, but before the two men could publicly debate the issue in 1864, Speke died in a hunting accident. While Burton recuperated from an illness, Speke and Bombay reached Lake Nyanza (also known as Lake Victoria), which Speke claimed as the Nile’s source. Tensions between the two strong-willed men quickly surfaced, but Burton was more fortunate in his hiring of Sidi Mubarak Bombay, a formerly enslaved East African, as head gun carrier.
John Hanning Speke of the Bengal Native Infantry, an avid hunter and member of the British aristocracy. After one member of his original team died before the journey, Burton hired Lt. In 1854, the Royal Geographical Society chose Richard Francis Burton to lead an expedition to locate the source of the White Nile, the longest branch of the Nile River. Bestseller Millard ( Hero of the Empire) recounts one of the greatest 19th-century British colonial explorations in this fascinating history.
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