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The Discovery of the Nile Book

Explorers have sought the sources of the Nile River since the days of the pharaohs. This superbly illustrated, oversized book details the quests of those ancients, but concentrates more on the 19th-century efforts of men who were well known in their day: Sir Richard Francis Burton, Sir Benjamin Baker, John Hanning Speke, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, David Livingstone. Gianni Guadalupi also covers lesser-known explorers, especially generally uncelebrated Africans in the employ of Mehemet Ali, the Albanian pasha who conquered Egypt and much of the Sudan in the early 19th century. Packed with ethnographic drawings, paintings, maps, and charts, The Discovery of the Nile will fuel the dreams of those who long to undertake a latter-day Nile voyage of their own. Read More

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  • Product Description

    Through archival illustrations, contemporary paintings, prints and maps, Guadalupi tells the history of the exploration of the river and the explorers such as Livingstone, Stanley and Schweinfurth. The book also describes the campaigns mounted along its banks from the ancient Egyptians to the Napoleonic conquests to the slave and ivory trades.

  • 0785815279
  • 9780785815273
  • Gianni Guadalupi
  • 1 August 2002
  • Book Sales
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 280
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