The White Nile Diaries

Author : John Hopkins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857734849
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The White Nile Diaries written by John Hopkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It all began at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station, New York, in 1961 - Two Princeton graduates - John Hopkins and Joe McPhillips - have returned from Peru. Loathe to return to a life of work, marriage and mortgages, they are tempted by a mysterious letter from Kenya. Hatching a plan to ride a motorbike across North Africa, they buy a sleek, white R50 BMW and paint her name - 'The White Nile' - on the fuel tank, in honour of the route they plan to follow. In limpid, elegant prose, Hopkins describes deadly salt deserts and fig-laden oases, disappeared travellers and the funerals of young Tunisians killed in the battle for independence. He conjures up the ghosts of ancient Rome in Leptis Magna and of Homer's Lotus Eaters in Djerba . They encounter armed vigilantes in the Tunisian desert and outrun Libyan border patrols, barely escaping with their lives. They climb the pyramids of Giza at dawn and ride the 'Desert Express' across the wastelands of the Nubian Desert, but their final adventure, at Sam Small's Impala Ranch, is perhaps the most surreal of all -

Author : Alan Moorehead
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The White Nile written by Alan Moorehead and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1983 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relive all the thrills and adventure of Alan Moorehead's classic bestseller The White Nile -- the daring exploration of the Nile River in the second half of the nineteenth century, which was at that time the most mysterious and impenetrable region on earth. Capturing in breathtaking prose the larger-than-life personalities of such notable figures as Stanley, Livingstone, Burton and many others, The White Nile remains a seminal work in tales of discovery and escapade, filled with incredible historical detail and compelling stories of heroism and drama.

Author : Jerome Van Crowninshield Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pilgrimage to Egypt, Embracing a Diary of Explorations on the Nile written by Jerome Van Crowninshield Smith and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Hanning Speke
Publisher : Edinburgh : W. Blackwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile written by John Hanning Speke and published by Edinburgh : W. Blackwood. This book was released on 1864 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kristiana Gregory
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780590819756
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cleopatra VII, Daughter of the Nile written by Kristiana Gregory and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While her father is in hiding after attempts on his life, 12-year-old Cleopatra records in her diary how she fears for her own safety and hopes to survive to become Queen of Egypt some day.

Author : Michael F. Robinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199978492
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost White Tribe written by Michael F. Robinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1876, in a mountainous region to the west of Lake Victoria, Africa--what is today Ruwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda--the famed explorer Henry Morton Stanley encountered Africans with what he was convinced were light complexions and European features. Stanley's discovery of this African "white tribe" haunted him and seemed to substantiate the so-called Hamitic Hypothesis: the theory that the descendants of Ham, the son of Noah, had populated Africa and other remote places, proving that the source and spread of human races around the world could be traced to and explained by a Biblical story. In The Lost White Tribe, Michael Robinson traces the rise and fall of the Hamitic Hypothesis. In addition to recounting Stanley's "discovery," Robinson shows how it influenced encounters with the Ainu in Japan; Vilhjalmur Stefansson's tribe of "blond Eskimos" in the Arctic; and the "white Indians" of Panama. As Robinson shows, race theory stemming originally from the Bible only not only guided exploration but archeology, including Charles Mauch's discovery of the Grand Zimbabwe site in 1872, and literature, such as H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, whose publication launched an entire literary subgenre ded icated to white tribes in remote places. The Hamitic Hypothesis would shape the theories of Carl Jung and guide psychological and anthropological notions of the primitive. The Hypothesis also formed the foundation for the European colonial system, which was premised on assumptions about racial hierarchy, at whose top were the white races, the purest and oldest of them all. It was a small step from the Hypothesis to theories of Aryan superiority, which served as the basis of the race laws in Nazi Germany and had horrific and catastrophic consequences. Though racial thinking changed profoundly after World War Two, a version of Hamitic validation of the "whiter" tribes laid the groundwork for conflict within Africa itself after decolonization, including the Rwandan genocide. Based on painstaking archival research, The Lost White Tribe is a fascinating, immersive, and wide-ranging work of synthesis, revealing the roots of racial thinking and the legacies that continue to exert their influence to this day.

Author : Dorothy Middleton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351891618
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diary of A.J. Mounteney Jephson written by Dorothy Middleton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a first-hand account of the expedition led by H. M. Stanley in 1887-89 to the relief of Emin Pasha, Governor of Equatoria. A. J. Mounteney Jephson, a typical late Victorian traveller, took part in Stanley’s last expedition in Africa. His recently-discovered diary describes the voyage out of the mouth of the Congo; the journey up the Congo and across the Ituri forests to Lake Albert; the meeting with Emin Pasha; the mutiny of Emin’s troops and their imprisonment of Emin and Jephson; and the journey back to the East coast. Though it fell short of its political and commercial aims, the expedition was important geographically as it solved the last mystery of African topography - the position and nature of the sources of the Nile.

Author : Narayan Changder
Publisher : CHANGDER OUTLINE
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book RODRICK RULES: DIARY OF A WIMPY KID written by Narayan Changder and published by CHANGDER OUTLINE. This book was released on 2024-02-07 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Enter the world of 'Rodrick Rules' with this entertaining MCQ book, another exciting installment in the 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series. Navigate through a collection of entertaining multiple-choice questions (MCQs) that test your knowledge about Greg Heffley's hilarious escapades, sibling rivalry, and unforgettable moments from Jeff Kinney's beloved book. Tailored for fans of all ages, this MCQ guide offers a delightful journey through the humor, mishaps, and relatable experiences of the Heffley brothers. Laugh along with Greg and Rodrick, reminisce on your favorite scenes, and download your copy now to test your Wimpy Kid wisdom!"

Author : Sir Gilbert Clyaton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520312090
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Arabian Diary written by Sir Gilbert Clyaton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This personal diary of six months of diplomacy and travel in Arabia represents and impressive document to the quiet ability and resourcefulness of one of Great Britain's leading officials in the Middle East in the 1920's. The sudden expansion of the Arabian Sultanate of Najd under the leadership of 'Abd-al-'Aziz ibn Sa'ud after the First World War presented a clear danger to British interests in the Middle East and threatened the strategically important Arabian corridor to India. To resolve this project the British government selected Sir Gilbert Clayton as their envoy to negotiate a settlement of differences and to determine the frontier between Saudi Arabia and the British Mandates of Trans-Jordan and Iraq. Sir Gilbert Falkingham Clayton (1875-1929) was a quiet, able soldier, administrator, and diplomat who had come out to eh Middle East during the reconquest of the Sudan and remained as a political officer in theSudan service, secretary to the Governor-General of the Sudan, Sir Reginald Wingate, and finally the Sudan agent at Cairo. At the outbreak of the First World War, Clayton served as the director of Military Intelligence an forged that remarkable intelligence team which included among others Leonard Woolley, George Lloyd, and T.E. Lawrence. Experience and resourceful, Clayton was an obvious choice to travel to the tents of Iban Sa'ud where the autumn of 1925 he negotiated the Bahra and Hadda Agreements fixing the frontiers of Saudi Arabia with Trans-Jordan and Iraq and cementing friendship between Britain and Ibn Sa'ud. These results represent a brilliant triumph of personal diplomacy which protected British interests and inaugurated the lifelong friendship between Sir Gilbert and Ibn Sa'ud. The story of these negotiations and Sir Gilbert's subsequent mission to the Imam of Yemen as the first official representative of the British government to visit San'a' are told in this valuable historical diary. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Journal of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: