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 Prize17 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 Squadron30 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 Tu -- v -- w -- y -- z
• Publisher Details: New Haven : Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 510 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates), illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
• Subjects: 962; Explorers -- Africa, East; Explorers -- Africa, Central; Explorers -- Great Britain; British -- Africa, East -- History -- 19th century; British -- Africa, Central -- History -- 19th century; Explorateurs -- Grande-Bretagne; Historical Adventure; History; Geographical Discovery & Exploration; HISTORY -- Middle East -- Egypt; British; Discoveries in geography; Explorers; Nile River -- Discovery and exploration; Africa, East -- History -- 19th century; Africa, Central -- History -- 19th century; Nil (Fleuve) -- Découverte et exploration; Afrique orientale anglophone -- Histoire -- 19e siècle; Afrique centrale -- Histoire -- 19e siècle; Central Africa; Africa, East; Great Britain; Nile River; History
• 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.
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• 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.