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The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration [Two-Volume Set] [ALS from Alan Moorehead to Publisher Ben Raeburn]
New York: Horizon Press, 1961. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE --Sir Richard F. Burton: The Maverick PolymathBurton was the archetypal "unreliable narrator" of Victorian exploration, yet his Lake Regions remains a masterpiece of objective observation. Unlike Speke, his partner-turned-rival, Burton viewed Africa through the eyes of a linguist and ethnographer. His prose is.....