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River of the gods : genius, courage, and betrayal in the search for the source of the Nile
Record details
- ISBN: 0385543107
- ISBN: 9780385543101
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Physical Description:
print
xii, 349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Maps on endpapers. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-328) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: Obsession -- Part one: Some gallant heart. A blaze of light ; Shadows ; Bond for our blood ; The Abban ; The enemy is upon us -- Part two: What might have been, what would have been. Into the mouth of Hell ; What a curse is a heart ; Horror vacui ; Bombay ; Death was written ; An old enemy ; Tanganyika ; To the end of the world -- Part three: Fury. The knives are sheathed ; 'Twas me he shot ; An exile's dream ; Hard as bricks -- Part four: The malignant tongues of friends. The prince ; Damn their souls ; Neston Park ; The weary heart grows cold -- Epilogue: Ashes. |
| Summary, etc.: | Set against the backdrop of the race to exploit Africa by the colonial powers, a story of courage and adventure brings to life the rivalry between two enemies--a decorated soldier and a young aristocrat/Army officer--as they set out to find the mysterious headwaters of the Nile River. |
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| Genre: | Récits de voyages. Travel writing. Travel writing. |
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- 41 of 42 copies available at Bibliomation.
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