Written for the Story of Exploration series, this history runs from what Egyptians, Greeks and Arab geographers knew of the Nile through Portuguese Jesuits in Abyssinia, James Bruce, and Muhammad Ali’s push up the White Nile. It then follows the missionaries who sighted snow-mountains, and Speke, Grant, Samuel and Florence Baker and their successors who finally traced the great lakes.
A clear single-volume history of the Nile puzzle by an explorer and colonial administrator who knew the region himself. Download the free EPUB.