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Mountains of the Moon is a 1990 American biographical film depicting the 1857–1858 journey of Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke in their expedition to Central Africa, which culminated in Speke's discovery of the source of the Nile River and led to a bitter rivalry between the two men. The film stars Patrick Bergin as Burton and Iain Glen as Speke. Delroy Lindo appears as an African whom the explorers…
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European colonisation of Africa was preceded by European exploration of the continent’s interior, which for centuries had been inaccessible to Europeans due to harsh climate, dangerous fauna, deadly endemic diseases and hostile native population. Only in 19th Century weapons, technology and medicine advanced enough to make such expeditions viable and the results stirred Europeans’ imagination with tales of mystery o…More
