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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Nile
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The quest for the source of the White Nile became an obsessive real-life adventure story for the British from the 1850s. Tales of a great inland sea, from which the river flowed, led to expeditions by *Burton and *Speke (1856–9), by Speke and James Grant (1860–3) and by *Baker and his wife (1862–5). The answer was found, though not immediately accepted, in the discovery and naming of Lake Victoria by Speke and of Lake Albert by Baker.
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