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Author : John Hanning Speke
Publisher : Eyewitness Accounts
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1445644231
Amberley's new series of Eyewitness Accounts bring history, warfare, disaster, travel and exploration to life, written by the people who could say, 'I was there!'
Author : John Hanning Speke
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387025156
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Christopher Ondaatje,Lord Selborne
Publisher : Long Riders Guild Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1590482255
Long fascinated with historical exploration, Ondaatje set out in 1996 to retrace explorer Richard Francis Burton's 1856 expedition to discover the source of the Nile River. Here he writes about his trek across the Serengeti Plains. 161 color photos. 20 maps.
Author : John Hanning Speke
Publisher : Edinburgh : W. Blackwood
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015010960477
Author : Gedef Abawa Firew,Anders Kaliff
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781443867917
Ethiopia has a rich and fascinating cultural heritage structured around water. The River Nile has been seen by many as the most important river in the world, and the secrets of the sources of the Nile and their mysteries have, from the dawn of civilization, attracted philosophers, emperors and explorers searching for answers. The source of the Blue Nile, Gish Abay, is believed to be the outlet of the biblical river Gihon, flowing directly from Paradise, linking this world with Heaven. The holiness of Abay (the Blue Nile) and its source in particular still has an important role in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. In the Lake Tana region, there are also numerous other myths, traditions and rituals concerning the river. Several of the island monasteries are incredibly holy, and indigenous practices and sacrifices to the river are still conducted. The most important celebration in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church is the Timkat festival, which is an annual commemoration of the importance of baptism. Despite the importance of the River Nile from antiquity to present-day practices and beliefs in Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, very little research has been conducted on the cultural and religious aspects of the Blue Nile in general and its source, Gish Abay, and Lake Tana in Ethiopia in particular. This book combines historic sources and new empirical ethnography, presenting parts of this cultural heritage and the traditions of water along the Blue Nile.
Author : Samuel White Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Africa
ISBN : GENT:900000198051
Author : Alan Moorehead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0140036849
The story of the Nile, from the Mountains of the Moon to the Mediterranean. The tale starts with Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke setting out to find the sources of the Nile. It continues with Baker of the Nile and his wife struggling with malaria, and of the famous greeting between Stanley and Livingstone. The book examines the results of their discoveries: the building of the Suez canal; the Khedive Ismail's appointment of Gordon as Governor-General of Sudan; and the story of the last days of Khartoum.
Author : Henri J. Dumont
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 819 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402097263
What have we learnt about the Nile since the mid-1970s, the moment when Julian Rzóska decided that the time had come to publish a comprehensive volume about the biology, and the geological and cultural history of that great river? And what changes have meanwhile occurred in the basin? The human popu- tion has more than doubled, especially in Egypt, but also in East Africa. Locally, industrial development has taken place, and the Aswan High Dam was clearly not the last major infrastructure work that was carried out. More dams have been built, and some water diversions, like the Toshka lakes, have created new expanses of water in the middle of the Sahara desert. What are the effects of all this on the ec- ogy and economy of the Basin? That is what the present book sets out to explore, 33 years after the publi- tion of “The Nile: Biology of an Ancient River”. Thirty-seven authors have taken up the challenge, and have written the “new” book. They come from 13 different countries, and 15 among them represent the largest Nilotic states (Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Kenya). Julian Rzóska died in 1984, and most of the - authors of his book have now either disappeared or retired from research. Only Jack Talling and Samir Ghabbour were still available to participate again.
Author : Toby Wilkinson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781408839935
From Herodotus's day to the present political upheavals, the steady flow of the Nile has been Egypt's heartbeat. It has shaped its geography, controlled its economy and moulded its civilisation. The same stretch of water which conveyed Pharaonic battleships, Ptolemaic grain ships, Roman troop-carriers and Victorian steamers today carries modern-day tourists past bankside settlements in which rural life – fishing, farming, flooding – continues much as it has for millennia. At this most critical juncture in the country's history, foremost Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey up the Nile, north from Lake Victoria, from Cataract to Cataract, past the Aswan Dam, to the delta. The country is a palimpsest, every age has left its trace: as we pass the Nilometer on the island of Elephantine which since the days of the Pharaohs has measured the height of Nile floodwaters to predict the following season's agricultural yield and set the parameters for the entire Egyptian economy, the wonders of Giza which bear the scars of assault by nineteenth-century archaeologists and the modern-day unbridled urban expansion of Cairo – and in Egypt's earliest art (prehistoric images of fish-traps carved into cliffs) and the Arab Spring (fought on the bridges of Cairo) – the Nile is our guide to understanding the past and present of this unique, chaotic, vital, conservative yet rapidly changing land.
Author : Charles Tilstone Beke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Africa, Eastern
ISBN : HARVARD:32044088662200
Author : Tim Jeal
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300178272
A “highly enjoyable” account of six men, and one woman, who journeyed into uncharted and treacherous African terrain to find the source of the White Nile (The Washington Post). Nothing obsessed explorers of the mid-nineteenth century more than the quest to discover the source of the White Nile. It was the planet’s most elusive secret, the prize coveted above all others. Between 1856 and 1876, six larger-than-life men and one extraordinary woman accepted the challenge. Showing extreme courage and resilience, Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, James Augustus Grant, Samuel Baker, Florence von Sass, David Livingstone, and Henry Morton Stanley risked their lives and reputations in the fierce competition. National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Tim Jeal deploys fascinating new research to provide a vivid tableau of the unmapped “Dark Continent,” its jungle deprivations, and the courage—as well as malicious tactics—of the explorers. On multiple forays launched into east and central Africa, the travelers passed through almost impenetrable terrain and suffered the ravages of flesh-eating ulcers, paralysis, malaria, deep spear wounds, and even death. They discovered Lakes Tanganyika and Victoria and became the first white people to encounter the kingdoms of Buganda and Bunyoro. Jeal weaves the story with authentic new detail—and examines the tragic unintended legacy of the Nile search that still casts a long shadow over the people of Uganda and Sudan. “A fabulous story…old-fashioned epic adventure.”—The Sunday Times "Superb narrative…a must-read for anyone hoping to understand the internal dynamics of modern state-building in central Africa.”—Booklist
Author : Charles Tilstone Beke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Nile River
ISBN : OCLC:1017341616
Author : James Bruce of Kinnaird
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752351224
Reproduction of the original: Travels To Discover the Source of the Nile by James Bruce of Kinnaird
Author : Charles T. Beke
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375108472
Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
Author : John Humphries
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780708326787
The source of the Nile had long eluded and tormented explorers, and John Hanning Speke's discovery of Lake Victoria in 1858 elevated him to the pantheon of heroes of African exploration, alongside Livingstone and Stanley. But the part played by the Welsh mining engineer John Petherick in the discovery was ignored after he was branded a slave trader by Speke, and the controversy that followed ended with Petherick ruined and Speke dead. This first biography of Petherick places him at the centre of one of the great discoveries in African exploration - and as the focus of a dispute that rocked the geographical establishment. Was Petherick a rogue, as portrayed by some, or the victim of a conspiracy that destroyed his reputation and denied him a share of the credit for his part in one of the greatest feats in African exploration?