Explorers of the Nile : the triumph and tragedy of a great Victorian adventure /: the triumph and tragedy of a great Victorian adventure. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tim Jeal.
• Other Names: Jeal, Tim
• Contents: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Plates""; ""Maps""; ""Introduction""; ""PART 1 Solving the Mystery""; ""1 Blood in Godâ€?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 Heroâ€?s Aberrations""; ""14 Death in the Afternoon""; ""15 The Doctorâ€?s Dilemma"" ""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 Doctorâ€?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"" ""29 An Arabian Princess and a German Battle Squadron""""30 â€?Savingâ€? Emin Pasha and Uganda""; ""31 The Prime Ministerâ€?s Protectorate""; ""32 To Die for the Mahdiâ€?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 Nileâ€?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"" ""T""""u""; ""v""; ""w""; ""y""; ""z""
• Publisher Details: New Haven : Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 510 pages, [16] pages of plates), illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
• Subjects: 962; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers; Explorers -- Africa, East; Explorers -- Africa, Central; Explorers -- Great Britain; British -- Africa, East -- History -- 19th century; British -- Africa, Central -- History -- 19th century; Africa, Central -- History -- 19th century; Africa, East -- History -- 19th century; British -- Africa, Central -- History -- 19th century; British -- Africa, East -- History -- 19th century; Explorers -- Africa, Central; Explorers -- Africa, East; Explorers -- Great Britain; Nile River -- Discovery and exploration; HISTORY -- Middle East -- Egypt; British; Discoveries in geography; Explorers; HISTORY / Africa / General; Historical Adventure; History; Geographical Discovery & Exploration; Nile River -- Discovery and exploration; Africa, East -- History -- 19th century; Africa, Central -- History -- 19th century; Africa, Central; Africa, East; Great Britain; Nile River; Electronic books; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780300178272; 0300178271; 9780571277773; 0571277772
• Related ISBNs: 9780300149357; 0300149352
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-493) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.