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Burton and Speke

By Rafiq A. Tschannen on February 24, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Behind Africa’s explorers, Muslim empires on the make

How Tripoli, Egypt, and Zanzibar rode 19th-century European expeditions to profit by Dane Kennedy, Boston Globe In June 1857, the British explorers Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke set […]