Authors in August: River of the Gods with Candice Millard

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🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Candice Millard, the author of four New York Times bestselling books, is here this week to discuss her newest book River of the Gods. The story of the search for the elusive source of the Nile by 19th-century explorers, it gives rise to a wide-ranging discussion across many dynamics, modern & historic.

(1:54) Introduction to Candice Millard

(3:20) The Source of the Story

(5:20) Importance of the source of the Nile

(7:12) The Royal Geographic Society past and present

(9:55) A picture of Richard Francis Burton

(13:25) Sidi Mubarak Bombay: the great unknown explorer

(17:45) Checking emotions and biases in historical writing

(21:31) John Hanning Speke: Partner and Rival

(25:57) The hardships of exploration

(28:32) Bygone themes of the 19th century

(35:15) Candice Millard’s writing style and methods

(38:04) What is Candice reading now

(40:26) Candice’s tips for new writers

(47:21) Why these books and these stories?

(48:40) What is the big takeaway from all four of these books

(50:05) Candice's next adventure…

Host: David Gardner
Guest: Candice Millard
Producer: Heather Horton

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0:15.0	Not every guest I have on this show has written a best-selling book, but of course with this authors in August latest installment this week's guest has, but even of those who have, who may have featured business or investing advice for the 20-20s, few if any generated their bestsellers through featuring character
0:21.2	driven historical narratives from the 19th century.
0:25.2	Well, this week's guest has Candice Millard's most recent book as River of the Gods
0:30.8	about the search for the source of the Nile.
0:33.0	Beautifully written and paste, it once again tells a story you may think, you know, at least something about,
0:40.0	but it opens your eyes to see things you knew nothing about but that thanks to this author that you learned that you learn remember probably share with others with advice as well for new writers and other benefits of plenty, pull up a chair
0:57.6	and join us. Only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.
1:01.0	It's the Rule Breaker Investing. Investing. It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.
1:11.0	Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. I like books. I hope you do too. I know many of you do which is why I hope you sign in to this investing podcast one month a year to meet authors, authors of books that may, as this week's
1:25.5	podcast demonstrates, may have little focus on business or investing, but
1:30.6	some great focus and lessons on another field that we do play on on this
1:35.5	podcast and that is the field of life. Well two weeks ago it was game design with
1:41.0	Jesse Shell last week it was rethinking what we really mean by
1:45.2	leadership with Les McHughan and this week it's a return visit of one of my
1:50.5	favorite living authors Candice Millard.
1:54.3	Candice Millard is the best-selling author of four wonderful books, all of which I've read,
1:58.7	including of course her most recent and the subject of this author's in August interview, River of the Gods, about the race to locate the source of the Nile.
2:07.0	Her previous book, Hero of the Empire, tells the story of a young Winston Churchill's gutsy escape from South Africa as a young man embroiled in the Boer War.
2:16.5	Candice and I talked about that book when she visited Fool HQ, oh my gosh September September of 2016.
2:24.0	You can listen to that by Googling Foolish Heroes
2:26.8	and Candice Millard.
2:27.8	That podcast appeared on September 28, 2016.
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