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Oblomov
Dec 07, 2015 rated it really liked it
Every reader has a book shelf filled with those strange "special interest" books, the books which are not necessarily embarrassing just hard to explain. My shelf is filled with books about eccentric Europeans going to foreign climes exploring for things that the locals already know about and quite often coming to a horrible end from violence, disease or starvation as a result. This book is a fine addition to this genre detailing the explorations of Burton, Speke, Baker, Livingstone and Stanley i ...more
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