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English edition
Oct
1997
352 pp.
1500 color illus.
Hardbound
26X36 cm
$69.95
LE 350.00
ISBN
978 977 424 420 9
For sale only in the Middle East
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The Discovery of the Nile
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Gianni Guadalupi
The Nile, like no other river, dominates the land through which it runs; in a sense it actually is the land, as away from its banks there is nothing but the desolation of the deserts. The Nile was for centuries the world’s most intriguing enigma: where on earth might the source of such an imposing river lie? Roman legionaries, Portuguese Jesuits, eccentric Scots, and erudite Frenchmen all tried in vain to reveal the great river’s secret, defeated by impassable swamps or diverted along the wrong branch. It was not until the mid-nineteenth century that the mystery was resolved through the tenacious efforts of the British explorers Burton, Speke, Grant, and Baker.
This lavishly illustrated book recounts the intricate history of the gradual exploration of the river and its tributaries, from the ancient Egyptians to the Napoleonic conquest, from the British expedition to Abyssinia to the Egyptian invasion of Sudan, from the slave and ivory trades to the epic death of General Gordon in Khartoum, and concludes with a chapter on the Nile in nineteenth-century landscape painting, which finally revealed the beauty of the great African river to the European public.
GIANNI GUADALUPI has been writing, translating, and editing anthologies for more than thirty years, specializing in non-fictional and fictional travel writing.
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