The Quest For The Secret Nile
Subtitle: Victorian Exploration in Equatorial Africa 1857-1888
Publisher: Chaucer Press
Published: June 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781904449157
Subjects: Geographical discovery & exploration; History; Sports & Outdoor Recreation; TRAVEL & HOLIDAY; History: World; History - General History; Africa; Africa - General; Rivers; History / Modern / 19th Century; British; Discovery and exploration; Nile River; Nile River Valley
First sentence: At the end of the first quarter of the nineteenth century, little more was known about the interior of equatorial Africa and the sources of the Nile than had been written by the ancients of Greece and Rome and the medieval Arabic scholars.