Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure

Tim Jeal is an acclaimed novelist and biographer, whose Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer was a BBC Radio Four 'Book of the Week'. Stanley was also named Sunday Times Biography of the Year, and, in the US, won the National Book Critics' Circle Award in Biography. Tim's memoir Swimming with my Father was also a BBC Radio Four 'Book of the Week' and was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize for autobiography.