
first edition; history of the Nile from 1798; the French in Egypt; Sudan, Ethiopia

In the first half of the nineteenth century, only a small handful of Westerners had ventured into the regions watered by the Nile River on its long journey from Lake Tana in Abyssinia to the Mediterranean-lands that had been forgotten since Roman times, or had never been known...


In the first half of the nineteenth century, only a small handful of Westerners had ventured into the regions watered by the Nile River on its long journey from Lake Tana in Abyssinia to the Mediterranean-lands that had been forgotten since Roman times, or had never been known...

First edition in hardcover issued by Harper & Row, 1962.



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In the first half of the nineteenth century, only a small handful of Westerners had ventured into the regions watered by the Nile River on its long journey from Lake Tana in Abyssinia to the Mediterranean-lands that had been forgotten since Roman times, or had never been known...




Hailed as utterly absorbing, (as) sweeping as the mighty river itself (Washington Post), the second volume in this two-book series expands the story of the dangerous search for the source of the Nile River.










