| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 510 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Simultaneously published: London : Faber and Faber. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-493) and index. |
| Contents |
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Plates""; ""Maps""; ""Introduction""; ""PART 1 Solving the Mystery""; ""1 Blood in God�s River""; ""2 A Great Misalliance""; ""3 A Rush of Men Like a Stormy Wind""; ""4 About a Rotten Person""; ""5 Everything Was to be Risked for This Prize""; ""6 Promises and Lies""; ""7 A Blackguard Business""; ""8 Our Adventurous Friend""; ""9 As Refulgent as the Sun""; ""10 An Arrow into the Heart""; ""11 Nothing Could Surpass It!""; ""12 The Nile is Settled""; ""13 A Hero�s Aberrations""; ""14 Death in the Afternoon""; ""15 The Doctor�s Dilemma"" |
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""16 The Glory of Our Prize""""17 A Trumpet Blown Loudly""; ""18 Almost in Sight of the End""; ""19 Never to Give Up the Search Until I Find Livingstone""; ""20 The Doctor�s Obedient and Devoted Servitor""; ""21 Threshing Out the Beaten Straw""; ""22 Nothing Earthly Will Make Me Give Up My Work""; ""23 Where Will You Be? Dead or Still Seeking the Nile?""; ""24 The Unknown Half of Africa Lies Before Me""; ""PART 2 The Consequences""; ""25 Shepherds of the World?""; ""26 Creating Equatoria""; ""27 An Unheard of Deed of Blood""; ""28 Pretensions on the Congo"" |
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""29 An Arabian Princess and a German Battle Squadron""""30 �Saving� Emin Pasha and Uganda""; ""31 The Prime Minister�s Protectorate""; ""32 To Die for the Mahdi�s Cause""; ""33 Equatoria and the Tragedy of Southern Sudan""; ""34 A Sin not Theirs: The Tragedy of Northern Uganda""; ""CODA: Lacking the Wand of an Enchanter""; ""APPENDIX: Fifty Years of Books on the Search for the Nile�s Source""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Sources""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S"" |
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""T""""u""; ""v""; ""w""; ""y""; ""z"" |
| Access |
Owing to Legal Deposit regulations this resource may only be accessed from within National Library of Scotland. For more information contact enquiries@nls.uk. StEdNL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nile River -- Discovery and exploration.
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Nile River. |
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Discoveries in geography. |
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Nile River Region. |
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Explorers -- Africa, East.
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Explorers. |
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Africa, East. |
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Explorers -- Africa, Central.
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Central Africa. |
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Explorers -- Great Britain.
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Great Britain. |
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British -- Africa, East -- History -- 19th century.
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British. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
British -- Africa, Central -- History -- 19th century.
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Africa, East -- History -- 19th century.
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Africa, Central -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jeal, Tim. Explorers of the Nile. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011 9780300149357 (DLC) 2011933872 (OCoLC)711045611 |
| ISBN |
9780300178272 (electronic book) |
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0300178271 (electronic book) |
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9780571277773 (electronic book) |
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0571277772 (electronic book) |
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9780300149357 |
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0300149352 |
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