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The White Nile (Penguin Classic History) (Paperback)

by Alan Moorehead (Author)

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Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New Ed edition (Feb 2002)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0141391162
ISBN-13: 978-0141391168

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,581,921 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This tale starts with Richard Burton and John Hanningspeke setting out to find the sources of the Nile. The author tells of "Baker of the Nile" and his wife, and of the American journalist H. M. Stanley whose greeting to Livingstone became a household phrase. He also examines the results of their discoveries: the building of the Suez Canal, the appointment of "Chinese" Gordon as governor-general of the Sudan and his tragic end in Khartoum, of the military successes which made Queen Victoria the ruler of a huge area from Alexandia to the highlands of Uganda, and which opened the Nile as a highway from Central Africa to the sea.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The greatest Africa book every written, 8 Jan 2001

By	africadan@hotmail.com (London (Africa by heart)) - See all my reviews

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When I first read this book I was sitting in a rural school half way up Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. I found this book on dusty bookshelf, left on its own in a collection of school books. I opened the book which starts its journey in Zanzibar....and follows the adventures and journeys of all the famous employers from Livingstone to Stanley to Baker and Speke...... If your were to read this book in Europe or America you would be on the next flight to Africa. Since reading the book, I have come back to England and brought another copy and read it more times than anything........

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great book about European colonization of Africa, 10 Aug 2008

By	Andres C. Salama (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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A good book, written almost 50 years ago (at a time when many African countries were gaining independence) about the discovery, conquest and colonization of the Nile region by Europeans in the period 1850-1900. The first part of the book deals with the exploration of the source of the Nile by such people as Burton, Speke, Baker, Stanley and Livingstone. The second part of the book, in my opinion the most interesting one, deals with England's assertion of influence over Egypt and the Sudan. The most interesting chapter in that part is the one dealing with Gordon's ill fated fight against the Mahdi in Sudan in 1884-85, but other episodes are included, such as the Emin Pasha' expedition, the battle of Omdurdan (a very one sided affair which put the Sudan finally under Britain's effective possession) and the Fashoda incident that almost produced war between England and France. A good volume, even if some of the assumptions the author put forward are dated now. It is also interesting to see how slavery was regarded as a natural institution in the Muslim world as recently as a century ago.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Classic, 13 Sep 2009

By	Miran Ali "I don't like anonymous reviewers" (Dhaka, Bangladesh) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This is one of those books you simply fall in love with. It's like an old friend you keep coming back to, year after year. The White Nile and the Blue Nile are two of the greatest history/travel books I have ever read. Alan Moorehead was a wonderful writer. I would also recommend you seek out his book much neglected "Fatal Impact: The Invasion of the South Pacific".

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