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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Quest For The Secret Nile: Victorian Exploration in Equatorial Africa 1857-1888di Guy Yeoman
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A coffee table style book, this is an in-depth look at the European discovery of the many sources of the Nile. It describes in detail the Nile Basin consisting of Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda and its people when the English first met them. The English were egotistical boors, & the Arabs were still kidnapping slaves(slavery had been abolished in the West). Only Henry Morton Stanley, an illegitimate Welshman who moved to America and whom, therefore, the author called the American, had any lick of sense. Contains numerous glossy color photos and many maps. The author describes the landscapes and sometimes the people in extraordinary detail, his having lived and worked there since the 1940s. Trigger warnings: descriptions of how some African tribes killed their own people were bone-chilling. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
The Nile, stretching for a distance of 4,163 miles, is the longest river in the world. The ancient Greeks were obsessed by the provenance of so much water, feeding a river that flowed out of the desert. Aeschylus, in 500 BC, talked of Egypt being nurtured by the snows. For centuries, the only sporadic reports from the heart of equatorial Africa came from Arab seafarers, land travellers and slavers. In the mid-1850s in Britain, the great thirst for adventure and discovery, combined with the challenge posed by the ancient riddle of the secret sources of the Nile and acted like a magnet on men such as Sir Richard Burton, Captain Hanning Speke, Samuel Baker, Dr David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley. This gripping account, illustrated with many prize-winning photographs, traces the tribulations and achievements of the men who walked in the footsteps of Herodotus and carried away the prize: the discovery of the sources of the Nile. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)916.2043History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in Africa Egypt; Sudan; South Sudan EgyptClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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