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Title: The Blue Nile by Alan Moorehead ISBN: 0-06-095640-2 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Blue Nile
Comment: This 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: 5
Summary: Truly absorbing!
Comment: 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: 4
Summary: An interesting book
Comment: This 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 superbly entertaining.
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Title: Gallipoli (Perennial Classics) by Alan Moorehead ISBN: 0060937084 Publisher: Perennial Classics Pub. Date: 03 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Desert War: The North African Campaign 1940-1943, Comprising Mediterranean Front, a Year of Battle, the End in Africa by Alan Moorehead ISBN: 0140275142 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Scramble for Africa... by Thomas Pakenham ISBN: 0380719991 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 December, 1992 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Through the Dark Continent:Volume 1 by Henry M. Stanley ISBN: 0486256677 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 July, 1988 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Into Africa : The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone by MARTIN DUGARD ISBN: 0385504519 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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