The Blue Nile

by Moorehead, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780060956400
• ISBN10: 0060956402
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-18
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

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 The Blue Nile, Alan Moorehead continues the classic, thrilling narration of adventure he began in The White Nile, 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.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: The Reconnaissance
The Blue Nile	3	(14)
Don Quixote at the Source	17	(16)
The Way Back	33	(20)
PART TWO: The French in Egypt
Bonaparte Sets Out	53	(18)
The Long Egyptian Night	71	(17)
The March to Cairo	88	(18)
The Occupation	106	(19)
The Campaign on the River	125	(20)
PART THREE: The Turks in the Sudan
The Life of High Crime	145	(13)
Sheikh Ibrahim ibn Abdullah	158	(15)
Shendy Market	173	(14)
Salaam Aleikoum	187	(22)
A Thought Threading a Dream	209	(20)
PART FOUR: The British in Ethiopia
The Power of Theodore	229	(22)
No. 1 Army Pigeon	251	(20)
Appointment at Magdala	271	(18)
An Easter Death	289	(20)
Epilogue	309	(18)
Sources	327	(6)
Acknowledgements	333	(2)
Index	335