White Nile

Based on contemporary records as well as Alan Mooreheads solid sense of history & subtler character insights this is an exciting record of the 50 years of African exploration & the attempt to reach the sources of the Nile. Across these pages we meet a mixed group of reckless to resolute figures--soldiers sportsmen scholars & reformers who thru whatever motivation made these journeys to the interior & endured ordeals of hardship. Burton the romantic & his associate Speke later his opponent the practical & sensible Baker Livingstone on his last expedition which ended with the famous confrontation & partnership with Stanley George Gordon the first in the long lineage of military mystics all these & others were fascinated & challenged by the Nile. Provides rich historical & geographical background.--Kirkus The four sections of this narrative trace Gordons story on the Nile & in particular Khartoum: the Exploration; the Exploitation; the Moslem Revolt; & Christian Victory.