The Blue Nile - Softcover

Moorehead, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394714490 ISBN 13: 9780394714493

Publisher: Vintage Books, 1983

Synopsis

Highlights the dominant roles played by James Bruce, Napoleon, Muhammad Ali, and Emperor Theodore of Ethiopia in the turbulent history of the Blue Nile

About this title

Review:

"AN EXCITING AND UNUSUAL BOOK". -- NEW YORK TIMES

"A Masterpiece."--"Newsweek"An Exciting and Unusual Book."--"New York Times"Utterly absorbing, sweeping as the mighty river itself...A magnificent, gripping story."--"The Washington Post

From the Back Cover:

In the first half of the 19th 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 at all. In The Blue Nile, Alan Moorehead continues the classic, thrilling narration of adventure he began in The White Nile, depicting this exotic place through the lives of four explores so daring they can be considered among the world's original adventures -- each acting and reacting in separate expeditions against a bewildering background of slavery and massacre, political upheaval, and all-out war.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0394714490
• ISBN 13: 9780394714493
• Binding: Paperback