LOST AND FOUND.(books about explorers Dr. David Livingstone and Sir Henry Morton Stanley)(Bibliography)

Few historical figures see their stock rise and fall as dramatically as do explorers. Poor Columbus, formerly revered for discovering the New World, now has Native American protests on the holiday named after him. Robert Falcon Scott, once widely admired for reaching the South Pole, is these days more often seen as a bumbler who started off too late in the season, brought too little food, and, refusing to use dogs to haul his sleds the final half of his journey, led himself and four exhausted colleagues to a frozen end. His famous last letters about dying for king and country now seem an eerie preview of the needless deaths of the First World War.

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