As America rebuilt following the Civil War, a rift developed with her old nemesis, Great Britain. Superpower Britain and the ascendant United States were at loggerheads over such issues as the sinking ...

Mixing political intrigue, adventure and his extensive research in Africa, author Martin Dugard tells the story behind the most famous encounter in exploration history --- the climactic meeting of Dr.

The oft-quoted if little-understood phrase “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” would seem like a thin premise for an eight-episode series. Yet producer Mark Burnett dives in with his customary gusto, ...

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AFA copy 39088019013531 gift of Janet Stanley. "In the mid-1860s, exploration had reached a plateau. The seas and continents had been mapped, the globe circumnavigated. Yet one vexing puzzle remained ...