Chuck ’s Reviews > River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile > Status Update

In the 19th and 20th centuries, the result of African exploration was not only mapping the continent but seizing it, region by region. By the time of Burton’s death, it was clear to every European nation not only where Africa’s lakes and rivers, mountains and forests lay but that it held vast, enviable natural resources…