
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.



Vintage Books

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.







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...







