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Feb 23, 1990 · A 1990 adventure drama film about the Victorian explorers Burton and Speke's quest to find the Nile source. See cast, crew, reviews, trivia, awards, and more on IMDb.
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- Bob Rafelson
- 1990-02-23
Mountains of the Moon is a song by Grateful Dead's Robert Hunter (lyrics) and Jerry Garcia (music). Its first release on record was on their album AOXOMOXOA, released in 1969 by the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts label.
Mountains of the Moon is a 1990 American biographical film depicting the 1857–1858 journey of Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke in their expedition to Central Africa, which culminated in Speke's discovery of the source of the Nile River and led to a bitter rivalry between the two men.
Oct 5, 2017 · Learn about the ancient and modern names and locations of the legendary mountain range that is the source of the Nile River. Find out how Diogenes, Ptolemy, Speke, Stanley and others explored and disputed the Mountains of the Moon.
Mountains of the Moon. Richard Burton (Patrick Bergin) and John Hanning Speke (Iain Glen) are explorers determined to find the source of the Nile somewhere in central Africa.
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Mar 23, 1990 · Bob Rafelson's "Mountains of the Moon" is centered on a series of expeditions led by Burton and John Hanning Speke, who marched for months through East Africa in their search for the source of the Nile.
Dec 15, 2020 · Once thought to be the source of the Nile, these snow-white caps were coined the “Mountains of the Moon” by the ancient astronomer and geographer Ptolemy, but geologists expect they will ...
