Explorers of the Nile
Subtitle: the triumph and tragedy of a great Victorian adventure
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9780571249756
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part 1 : Solving the mystery.; title: Blood in God's river; title: A great misalliance; title: A rush of men like a stormy wind; title: About a rotten person; title: Everything was to be risked for this prize; title: Promises and lies; title: A blackguard business; title: Our adventurous friend; title: As refulgent as the sun; title: An arrow into the heat; title: Nothing could surpass it!; title: The Nile is settled; title: A hero's aberrations; title: Death in the afternoon; title: The doctor's dilemma; title: The glory of our prize; title: A trumpet blown loudly; title: Almost in sight of the end; title: Never to give up the search until I find Livingstone; title: The doctor's obedient and devoted servitor; title: Threshing out the beaten straw; title: Nothing earthly will make me give up my work; title: Where will you be? Dead or still seeking the Nile?; title: The unknown half of Africa lies before me; title: Part 2 : The consequences.; title: Shepherds of the world?; title: Creating Equatoria; title: An unheard of deed of blood; title: Pretensions on the Congo; title: An Arabian princess and a German battle squadron; title: Saving Emin Pasha and Uganda; title: The Prime Minister's protectorate; title: To die for the Mahdi's cause; title: Equatoria and the tragedy of Southern Sudan; title: A sin not theirs : the tragedy of Northern Uganda; title: Coda : Lacking the wand of an enchanter; title: Appendix : Fifty years of books on the search for the Nile's source