![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bestselling author Millard, a former writer and editor for National Geographic, offers a tense, vibrant history of several dramatic expeditions across East Africa that finally resulted in a successful discovery. The Rosetta Stone-discovered by French soldiers in 1799, seized by a British envoy, and deciphered 23 years later-set off an obsessive interest in Egypt, including by the newly established Royal Geographical Society, to find the headwaters of the Nile. ![]()
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