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    RAKE COMMENDS

    by benedict browne Oct 23, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: Ernest Shackleton with two members of his team at the Magnetic South Pole in 1909.

    In the mid 19th century, David Livingstone, God-fearing autodidact and missionary, lost his enthusiasm for efforts to convert the African people. He decided to discover the world, in the process leading Britain into a new era of discovery by a new breed of operator: the explorer. His obsession was focused on the whereabouts of the source of the Nile, which also has names such as John Hanning Speke and Richard Burton (not Richard Burton) associated with it. The preoccupation with

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