The story of the Nile, from the Mountains of the Moon to the Mediterranean. The tale starts with Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke setting out to find the sources of the Nile. It continues with Baker of the Nile and his wife struggling with malaria, and of the famous greeting between Stanley and Livingstone. The book examines the results of their discoveries: the building of the Suez canal; the Khedive Ismail's appointment of Gordon as Governor-General of Sudan; and the story of the last days of Khartoum. The book ...
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The story of the Nile, from the Mountains of the Moon to the Mediterranean. The tale starts with Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke setting out to find the sources of the Nile. It continues with Baker of the Nile and his wife struggling with malaria, and of the famous greeting between Stanley and Livingstone. The book examines the results of their discoveries: the building of the Suez canal; the Khedive Ismail's appointment of Gordon as Governor-General of Sudan; and the story of the last days of Khartoum. The book concludes with Kitchener's military success at Omdurman which made Queen Victoria the ruler of the huge area from Alexandria to the highlands of Uganda and which resulted in the Nile being, for the first tiem, an open highway from Central Africa to the sea.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Very Good in Unclipped, but chipped jacket. Size: 10x7x1; Rev. ed.; 371 p., immaculate and unmarked; fabulous ill. and end pages; binding strong; boards fine--well-protected by intrepid glossy pictorial d. j that has suffered a few wounds--some chipping on edges and a closed tear near crown of spine on back panel. So "like new" but with a shabby d.j.
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Good in Good jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Jacket has light edgewear. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. Small Quarto. Small 4to. 368 pp, 48 color, 120 monochrome illus; maps. New Illustrated and Revised Edition, 1971. Price clipped. Pristine, no wear. No markings, tight binding, clean, white and bright. 7.75" x 10.25". Light-brown cloth with brown sail boat embossed on front board, gilt lettering to spine, dark-brown top text block edge, and illustrated endpapers. Illustrated dj in acetate protector. "The story of the Nile, from the Mountains of the Moon to the Mediterranean. The tale starts with Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke setting out to find the sources of the Nile. It continues with Baker of the Nile and his wife struggling with malaria, and of the famous greeting between Stanley and Livingstone. The book examines the results of their discoveries: the building of the Suez canal; the Khedive Ismail's appointment of Gordon as Governor-General of Sudan; and the story of the last days of Khartoum. The book concludes with Kitchener's military success at Omdurman which made Queen Victoria the ruler of the huge area from Alexandria to the highlands of Uganda and which resulted in the Nile being, for the first tiem, an open highway from Central Africa to the sea."
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VG in VG+ jacket. Not ex-lib. The large, illustrated revision of 1971; heavy: non-U.S. shipping may require extra fees; please inquire. Hardcover in brown cloth, in jacket with period engraving of Murchison Falls spanning spine and front, 4to. 368pp. Index, bibliography, chronology. Color plates. B/W illustrations throughout. VG/VG. Book has clean, sharp cloth with light wear at tips of corners; strong binding; foxing to upper frontis and title pages, faint stain to upper corner ffep as from former label; pages and plates therwise clean and bright. Jacket hjas touches of foxing to upper front panel and mod rear panel; 1" and 3/8" closed tears (internally-taped) off upper rear edge with mild rubbing along edge. Central panels clean and bright. Jacket in Brodart.
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Very Good+ Very Good book lacking the dust jacket. Slight bump to front cover, slight rubbing to edges. Contents are excellent. Printed on coated paper. Fifty colored plates, nine maps, many other b/w plates. A handsome copy of Moorehead's classic study. Small 4to 9"-11" tall. 368 pages. A7.