The Nile is the longest river in the world. In its route from the Lake Plateau of East Africa to the Mediterranean, the Nile flows for more than four thousand miles through nine countries: Tanzania, Kenya, Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Uganda, the Sudan, and Egypt. The river begins in volcanoes and mountains with glacial snows and ends in arid deserts. Throughout history, the banks of the Nile have been home to many peoples, from Bantu cultivators, Nilotic herdsmen, and Ethiopians in their highlands to the Sudanese, ...
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The Nile is the longest river in the world. In its route from the Lake Plateau of East Africa to the Mediterranean, the Nile flows for more than four thousand miles through nine countries: Tanzania, Kenya, Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Uganda, the Sudan, and Egypt. The river begins in volcanoes and mountains with glacial snows and ends in arid deserts. Throughout history, the banks of the Nile have been home to many peoples, from Bantu cultivators, Nilotic herdsmen, and Ethiopians in their highlands to the Sudanese, Nubians, and Egyptians on the plains below. No other river in the world has embraced such human diversity. But the huge and varied populations that have thrived on the waters of the Nile have also exerted extraordinary pressures on the river and its environment. From the early canals dug by the pharaohs to the building of the Aswan High Dam in 1971, civilizations have struggled to tame the Nile and control its resources. In The Nile , Robert Collins charts this dynamic interplay between man and nature in chronicling the past, present, and future of this great river.
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Fine. Very Good+ DJ. No Exp Yale University Press 2002 First Edition NL with 1 Illustrated. Color illustrated section. Slight wear to bright dust jacket with some shelfwear. HEAVY ITEM.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Quarto in Fine Condition with a Very Good Illustrated Dust Jacket. Tan cloth over spine with silver titles, black paper-wrapped boards, tight, solid and square sewn binding. Internals as new. 8 color plates, 9 maps, b/w photos throughout. A study of Africa's longest river, flowing more than 4000 miles through 9 countries, with its long history--even the pharaohs wrote about it, used it, studied it. An exploration of the lands and people of the Nile Basin, the age-old effort to control its waters, and the political battles over time over its ownership. 260 pages with Noters and Index. 7.25 x 9.5 inches. 2002, Yale University Press, New Haven and London.
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8pp photoplates. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 26x18cm, x, 260, (8)pp, Dustwrapper flaps mounted on fixed flyleaves. Contents: The tyranny of dependency--The lake plateau--The Sudd--Land beyond the rivers--The Blue Nile--From Khartoum to Kush--The Egyptian Nile and its delta--British engineers on the Nile--Plans and dams--The Nile ends at Aswan--Jonglei--Who owns the Nile? --The waters of the world and the Nile. ["The Nile is the longest river in the world. In its route from the Lake Plateau of East Africa to the Mediterranean, the Nile flows for more than 4000 miles through nine countries: Tanzania, Kenya, Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Uganda, the Sudan and Egypt. The river begins in volcanoes and mountains with glacial snows and ends in arid deserts. Throughout history, the banks of the Nile have been home to many peoples, from Bantu cultivators, Nilotic herdsmen, and Ethiopians in their highlands to the Sudanese, Nubians and Egyptians on the plains below. No other river in the world has embraced such human diversity. But the huge and varied populations that have thrived on the waters of the Nile have also exerted extraordinary pressures on the river and its environment. From the early canals dug by the pharaohs to the building of the Aswan High Dam in 1971, civilizations have struggled to tame the Nile and control its resources. In this text, Robert Collins charts this dynamic interplay between man and nature in chronicling the past, present and future of this great river"-Publisher's description].
