The Blue Nile: Four Daring Explorers, Nineteenth-Century Africa, and a Journey Amid Slavery, War, and Upheaval

The Blue Nile: Four Daring Explorers, Nineteenth-Century Africa, and a Journey Amid Slavery, War, and Upheaval

<p>In the first half of the nineteenth century, only a small handful of Westerners had ventured into the regions watered by the Nile River on its long journey from Lake Tana in Abyssinia to the Mediterranean-lands that had been forgotten since Roman times, or had never been known at all. In <em>The Blue Nile,</em> Alan Moorehead continues the classic, thrilling narration of adventure he began in <em>The White Nile,</em> depicting this exotic place through the lives of four explorers so daring they can be considered among the world's original adventurers -- each acting and reacting in separate expeditions against a bewildering background of slavery and massacre, political upheaval and all-out war.</p>