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Alan Moorehead
The Blue Nile
New York: Harper and Row, 1972.
First edition thus.
When Alan Moorehead's The Blue Nile first appeared in 1962, it was recognized as a work of such elegantly phrased scholarship that it was re-issued in this highly illustrated version, with 32 color plates and 130 additional illustrations.
Moorehead traces the nineteenth century exploitation of the Nile through the experiences of four men: the Scottish explorer James Bruce, Napoleon Bonaparte, the Turkish military adventurer Mohammed Ali, and the Emperor Theodore of Ethiopia.
Each bring a different world into being, the effects of which are still reverberating today.
Hardcover.