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The Blue Nile by: Alan Moorehead List Price: CDN$ 16.50 Price: CDN$ 9.94 You Save: CDN$6.56 (40%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 962 EAN: 9780060956400 ISBN: 0060956402 Label: HarperCollins Canada / Non-Fiction Manufacturer: HarperCollins Canada / Non-Fiction Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: October 05, 2000 Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Non-Fiction Studio: HarperCollins Canada / Non-Fiction Sales Rank: 213659 Related Items: Related Items:  see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
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 Rating:  - Absorbing historyThis book deals with history and culture along the Nile from 1798 to 1868 whilst the author's other book The White Nile explores the history from 1856 to 1900. Both books are masterpiecs of history, geography and ethnography. The Blue Nile chronicles events on the Nile from Ethiopia through Sudan to the sea but also deals with European history in the way it impacted on the Nile and the areas under discussion. It is an impressive resource of the events, the personalities involved and the people groups of this vast region. Part One: Reconnaissance, opens with a description of Lake Tana in the highlands of Ethiopia. Although the lake is considered the primary source of the Blue Nile, the Little Abbai river which flows from the Ghis ... Read More: Rating:  - The Blue NileThis book and its companion book The White Nile are both some of the more enjoyable and interesting history books available. They will not disappoint anyone looking for an interesting story of equatorial exploration, in the days when the interior of African was still the "great unknown " to the world at large. One should read both the Blue and White Nile books by this author to really get a feel for the history that concentrates on the era of European involvemnt into the Nile area and of course the discovery of the source of the Nile. It also gives a good background into the roots of modern history of Egypt and Ethiopia with respect to the European powers in light of todays events. Rating: - Truly absorbing!The Blue Nile and its companion, The White Nile are historical accounts with details that are almost beyond belief. Even as an avid reader of history and exploration, I was taken with accounts, that if presented as fiction, would be dismissed as too fantastic to be credible. The author's style is reminiscent of Daniel J. Boorstin and similarly readable. Details of the Marmelukes that ruled Egypt, and of the charismatic Islamic figure, The Mahdi, are only two of the portraits that will fascinate. Rating: - An interesting bookThis book traces the history of the socalled 'Blue Nile' from the early 18th and 19th centuries forward (the 'Blue Nile' is the stretch of the Nile running from Etheopia to Alexandria). The book focuses on the exploration of the region as well as the wars, including that of Napoleon fighting the Mamelukes, and how he later was ousted by the English and the Turks. There are also many vivid and detailed descriptions of various tribes on the lower Nile, and, as always, Alan Moorehead has an instinct for colour, detail, and action. It is a worthy sequel to 'The White Nile', although it is understandably difficult to find the equals of such characters as Livingstone and Stanley who loomed large in the first book. Still it is well worth reading and ... Read More: Rating: - Excellent Reading and very informative.I truely enjoyed this book as well as the companion book "The White Nile". I read this book while living in Nairobi, Kenya and found it enlightening to the politics of Colonial Africa. |
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