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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Sad Story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile; or, Was John Hanning Speke a Cad: Looking at the Evidencedi W. B. Carnochan
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Until I read this book I had no idea that Burton and Speke have a following as keen, if not as numerous, as that of Holmes and Watson. The author of The Sad Story of Burton, Speke, and the Nile brings his skills as an emeritus professor of English to a "close reading" of the relevant texts, winding up with a "Concluding Unscientific Postscript" looking at the overlap of literary criticism and historiography. I think both Team Burton and Team Speke will find much that is original and thought-provoking here; it certainly renewed my interest in the primary texts.
This is a study of the famous controversy between Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke, fellow explorers who quarreled over Speke's claim to have discovered the source of the Nile during their African expedition in 1857-59. Speke died of a gunshot wound, probably accidental, the day before a scheduled debate with Burton in 1864. Burton has had the upper hand in subsequent accounts. Speke has been called a “cad.” In light of new evidence and after a careful reading of duelling texts, Carnochan concludes that the case against Speke remains unproven-and that the story, as normally told, displays the inescapable uncertainty of historical narrative. All was fair in this love-war. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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