The Explorers: A Story of Fearless Outcasts, Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success

by Martin Dugard

Overview

What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? What is the fate of the mankind? Do we just die and rot in the ground, or there is more to life? These prophecies have the answers! This book contains authentic future predictions of four important prophets from the Torah - Book of Jeremiah, Book of Daniel, Book of Ezekiel, and Book of Zechariah. The inspiration material in the book is timeless and includes a special commentary. It is about mankind's apocalyptic future in not so distant future, and what happens beyond.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781451677591
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	06/03/2014
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	127,681
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

David Zephaniah is a descendant of an ancient family of priests and prophets. He lives in Florida with his wife. He believes that the Torah is the most fascinating book in the world. He spent years studying it, and even though he discovered lots of profound secrets of life in it, it is never-ending well off wisdom and knowledge, the matters of life and death, afterlife, paranormal, mystical, love, happiness, relationships, etc. He would like to share his knowledge with you for the purpose of inspiration.

Editorial Reviews

In 1856, already famous adventurer Richard Burton and the young John Hanning Speke ventured deep into the wilderness of the African Great Lakes, searching for the source of the Nile. The Royal Geographical Society expedition proved to be a disaster in more ways than one: Both explorers were taken down by disease; Speke by temporary blindness; most of their surveying equipment was stolen or ruined; and they were ultimately unable to achieve their mission goal. What occurred after they returned home to England was no less disastrous. The two began a venomous public feud that damaged both their reputations, but helped seal a story that told here adeptly by Martin Dugard (Into Africa; The Training Ground) holds our attention to its very end.

05/01/2014
Curiosity. Hope. Passion. Courage. Independence. Self-discipline. Perseverance. Dugard (coauthor, Killing Lincoln) identifies these as the qualities that successful explorers display over the course of their journeys and from which the rest of us can learn. As the foundation for his argument, the author uses the 1857–58 expedition of Richard Francis Burton (1821–90) and John Hanning Speke (1827–64) to find the source of the Nile River, noting the difficulties they experienced in traveling into Africa, the clash of their personalities, and the fallout from their conflicting conclusions regarding the river's source. Dugard arranges his chapters by the traits listed and investigates related psychological/behavioral research then meanders on a far-ranging journey through time and other explorers who have displayed similar attributes. VERDICT Unlike most exploration narratives, this book sets a different course while hitting the highlights of an expedition and its outcome. Dugard's writing so entertains that readers will not mind the various tangents and digressions.—Margaret Atwater-Singer, Univ. of Evansville Lib., IN

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