The White Nile
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: October 1, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780060956394
First sentence: The Zanzibar that Burton and Speke first saw at the end of 1856 was a much more important place than it is today; indeed, it was almost the only centre of overseas commerce worth the name along the whole East African seaboard.