About this title: The story of the Nile, from the Mountains of the Moon to the Mediterranean. The tale starts with Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke setting out to find the sources of the Nile. It continues with Baker of the Nile and his wife struggling with malaria, and of the famous greeting between Stanley and Livingstone. The book examines the results of their discoveries: the building of the Suez canal; the Khedive Ismail's appointment of Gordon as Governor-General of Sudan; and the story of the last days of Khartoum. The book concludes with Kitchener's military success at Omdurman which made Queen ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York
Date Published: 1960
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Binding tight with text unmarked and clean. No folds, stains or tears. Foxing plus light soiling to edges. Boards are clean and moderately worn. Sound book, 385 pages, with maps and illustrations. 385 p. Includes: illustrations, maps, index. Hardcover. 385 p. Includes illustrations, maps and index. read more
Description: Very Good. Hardcover, Harper & Brothers, 1960, dust jacket ahs wear and etars toedges with discoloration, browncloth cover is Fine, map endpapers, text is clean and very lightly tanned with great photographs, spine is tight, ships within 2 4hr. sku V 10 C. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Dell Books
Date Published: 1962
ISBN-13:9780440240150ISBN:0440240158
Description: Good. Dell #9516, Third Printing in 1963. Good+. Tight spine, some cover and edge wear, and bookstore stamp inside. Lightly tanning pages. Non-Fiction (#82121) read more
Description: Good in poor dust jacket. 368 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Inside of boards discolored. Name taped over on front inside cover. Dust jacket has several tears and worn on edges. read more
Description: Good. 0060956399 NOTE PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASE! ! MUCH Earlier smaller reading copy only paperback same text exactly-Aside from newer introduction/afterward, the original text has not changed. Different cover. OLDER Used Condition with age discoloration, though book is holding together well for it's age. No writing or Highlighting in text, sold for content. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hamilton
Date Published: 1960
Description: Good. ---385 pages. Interior is clean, near flawless. Orange cover shows expected signs of use, with fading to spine and slight curling on corners. -Publish Place: New York-Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: A Dell Book/ Dell Publishing Co Inc
Date Published: 1963
Description: Good. Paperback. Cover shows moderate wear to edges and corners, very minor spine creasing. Insides of covers are signifigantly sunned to edges. Pages are lightly sunned. Mild underlining throughout. Binding is excellent. read more
"Another interesting book about (primarily British) explorers searching for the headwaters of the Nile and the explorers and exploiters that followed them."
"This book is a history of the exploration for the source of the Nile and the struggles for settlement in the area of Africa south of Egypt. It discusses most of the famous African explorers from Livingstone and Sir Richard Burton to Gordon, Stanley and Kitchener, ending with the final battle in 1899. I found the book very slow going and dryly written."
"EXCELLENT work about the geography of the Nile basin and it's unique features, exploration of the Nile and it's difficulties, indigenous African people, the foundations of colonialism and all the assorted events and characters that make a narrative historical account so fascinating.
The writing is not impeccable and the author relies on a few phrases I found downright annoying, but I learned a tremendous amount of information. Also, for the first time in my 12ish month African journey, i was able to concretely relate sections of this work to others I had read. Specifically, Stanley's expedition to 'rescue' Emir Pasha (which I had read of from the perspective of the Congo in "King Leopold's Ghost), and the geography of the Sudd which I recalled from "West with the Night". I confess, I had to go back to the library to re-read the fourish pages of "West with the Night", and I've checked out "King Leopold's Ghost" to review that too!
I'm now onto the companion book, "The Blue Nile" hoping for another great book!"
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