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Title
Explorers of the Nile - the triumph and the tragedy of a great Victorian adventure

Author
Tim Jeal

format
Hardback

Publisher
Faber & Faber

Language
English

UK Publication Date
20110915

Description

Between
1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly
impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. Showing
exceptional courage and extraordinary resilience, Richard Burton, John
Hanning Speke, Samuel Baker, David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley
risked their lives and their reputations in the name of this quest. They
journeyed through East and Central Africa into unmapped territory,
discovered the great lakesTanganyika and Victoria, navigated the upper
Nile and the Congo, and suffered the ravages of flesh-eating ulcers,
malaria and deep spear wounds. Using new research, Tim Jeal tells the
story of these great expeditions, while also examining the tragic
consequences which the Nile search has had on Uganda and Sudan to this
day.

Explorers of the Nile is a gripping adventure story with an arresting analysis of Britain's imperial past and the Scramble for Africa.

Tim Jeal is an acclaimed novelist and biographer, whose Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer was published by Faber in 2007 and was a BBC Radio Four 'Book of the Week'. Stanley was named Sunday Times Biography of the Year, and, in the US, won the National Book Critics' Circle Award in Biography for 2007. Tim's memoir Swimming with my Father was published by Faber in 2004 and was also a BBC Radio Four 'Book of the Week' and was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize for autobiography.

In September 2011 Faber will publish Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure, which, thanks to much original research, will shed fascinating new light on the 'Search for the Nile' and its colonial consequences.

In 1973 Tim Jeal's Livingstone (1973) was selected as a 'Notable Book of the Year' by the New York Times Book Review and one of the 'Best and Brightest of the Year' by the Washington Post Book World. Livingstone formed the basis for a BBC TV documentary and a film for the Discovery Channel. It has never been out of print. Nor has Tim Jeal's Baden-Powell (1989), which was a 'Notable Book of the Year', and was chosen by Channel 4 for its 'Secret Lives' strand. In 1975 Tim was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize.

Type
BOOK

Edition
Third Edition

Keyword Index
Explorers - Africa, East - History - 19th century.|Explorers - Africa, Central - History - 19th century.|British - Africa, East - History - 19th century.|British - Africa, Central - History - 19th century.|Explorers - Great Britain - History - 19th century.|Africa, East - Discovery and exploration - British.|Africa, Central - Discovery and exploration - British.

Country of Publication
England

Number of Pages
510

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