Imperial Vanities - Thompson, Brian
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Biographical histories of the Baker Brothers - one of whom searched for the source of the Nile, the other became leader of the Ottoman army - and of Gordon of Khartoum.
`A Victorian drama of three intertwined lives set against a backcloth of the greatest empire the world has ever seen. By degrees heroic, poignant, whimsical and tragic, Brian Thompson¿s wonderful book is precisely what that much-misused cliché ¿rattling good yarn¿ might have been coined to describe.¿ RICHARD HOLMES

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Biographical histories of the Baker Brothers - one of whom searched for the source of the Nile, the other became leader of the Ottoman army - and of Gordon of Khartoum.
`A Victorian drama of three intertwined lives set against a backcloth of the greatest empire the world has ever seen. By degrees heroic, poignant, whimsical and tragic, Brian Thompson¿s wonderful book is precisely what that much-misused cliché ¿rattling good yarn¿ might have been coined to describe.¿ RICHARD HOLMES
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Brian Thompson was born in London and read English at Cambridge. He has written for radio and television, as well as for stage. His work of non-fiction includes `A Monkey Among Crocodiles¿ and `Imperial Vanities¿. He lives in Oxford and France. Brian Thompson is the most hilariously funny and innovative voice in non-fiction for ages.