The mountains of the moon
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Title: The mountains of the moon
Author: Richard Burton
Editorial: Valdemar
Sentence: "The favor of the winds accompanied by dust".
Critical Vap: A classic of travel literature offers, sometimes, African Perspective takes having the first European explorers. The caravan leaves from Zanzibar and goes to Uganda, to the same mountains of the moon. One of the jewels of this story is read as disqualifying Burton and his companion Speke discovered the source of the Nile. Years later confirm that Speke was the first European to locate those mythical sources, therefore be taken of the passage where Burton almost ridicules the theory of his traveling companion. The narration is detailed and, certainly, is an important historical document.
