I'd like to thank the publishers for sending a copy to The Bookbag.
Victorian themes thrown up by this book might be further explored in: [[A Corkscrew is Most Useful: The Travellers of the Empire by Nicholas Murray]]; [[Darwin: A Life in Science by John Gribbin and Michael White]]; and for a historical fiction set in nineteenth century Cairo, [[The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger]].