The White Nile
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Namnad på försättsblad. Portot gäller oavsett antal böcker. - The story of the Nile from the Mountains of the Moon to the Mediterranean...
Alan Moorehead's tale starts with Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke setting out to find the source of the Nile in country rarely visited by outsiders. He tells of Baker of the Nile and his wife struggling with malaria, and of Stanley the American journalist whose greeting to Livingstone became a household phrase.
Alan Moorehead examines the result of their discoveries: the building of the Suez Canal, the Khedive Ismail's appointment of Gordon as Governor-General of the Sudan, and the moving story of the last days of Khartoum. He 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 inthe Nile being, for the first time, an open highway from Central Africa to the sea.
