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Explorers of the Nile : the triumph and tragedy of a great Victorian adventure

Tim Jeal
Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. This title tells the story of these great expeditions, while examining the tragic consequences which the Nile search has had on Uganda and Sudan to this day.
eBook, English, 2011
Yale University Press, New Haven, 2011
Ressources Internet
1 ressource en ligne (xvii, 510 pages, [16] pages de planches) : illustrations (en partie en couleur), cartes (en partie en couleur)
9780300178272, 9780571277773, 0300178271, 0571277772
1004164402
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Plates""; ""Maps""; ""Introduction""; ""PART 1 Solving the Mystery""; ""1 Blood in God�s River""; ""2 A Great Misalliance""; ""3 A Rush of Men Like a Stormy Wind""; ""4 About a Rotten Person""; ""5 Everything Was to be Risked for This Prize""; ""6 Promises and Lies""; ""7 A Blackguard Business""; ""8 Our Adventurous Friend""; ""9 As Refulgent as the Sun""; ""10 An Arrow into the Heart""; ""11 Nothing Could Surpass It!""; ""12 The Nile is Settled""; ""13 A Hero�s Aberrations""; ""14 Death in the Afternoon""; ""15 The Doctor�s Dilemma"" ""16 The Glory of Our Prize""""17 A Trumpet Blown Loudly""; ""18 Almost in Sight of the End""; ""19 Never to Give Up the Search Until I Find Livingstone""; ""20 The Doctor�s Obedient and Devoted Servitor""; ""21 Threshing Out the Beaten Straw""; ""22 Nothing Earthly Will Make Me Give Up My Work""; ""23 Where Will You Be? Dead or Still Seeking the Nile?""; ""24 The Unknown Half of Africa Lies Before Me""; ""PART 2 The Consequences""; ""25 Shepherds of the World?""; ""26 Creating Equatoria""; ""27 An Unheard of Deed of Blood""; ""28 Pretensions on the Congo"" ""29 An Arabian Princess and a German Battle Squadron""""30 �Saving� Emin Pasha and Uganda""; ""31 The Prime Minister�s Protectorate""; ""32 To Die for the Mahdi�s Cause""; ""33 Equatoria and the Tragedy of Southern Sudan""; ""34 A Sin not Theirs: The Tragedy of Northern Uganda""; ""CODA: Lacking the Wand of an Enchanter""; ""APPENDIX: Fifty Years of Books on the Search for the Nile�s Source""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Sources""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S"" ""T""""u""; ""v""; ""w""; ""y""; ""z""
Simultaneously published: London : Faber and Faber