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The hunt for the source of the Nile

Victorian explorers were the pathfinders of empire, hungry not for power but for knowledge. They became heroes in Britain, their exploits the basis for a wave of popular fiction such as Rider Haggard’s 'King Solomon’s Mines and She'.

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