The River Nile by Bruce Brander - National Geographic Society, Vintage 1966 Year

Description: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Check out our other items! We offer fast, combined shipping on all items in our store and FREE SHIPPING on orders over $75. Buy more and save! Place an Order with Two or More Items from Our Store: Save an EXTRA 10% Place an Order with Three or More Items from Our Store: Save an EXTRA 15% Place an Order with Four or More Items from Our Store: Save an EXTRA 20% This goes for everything in our store! Reasonable offers are welcome. The Nile intrigues man's imagination more than any other river in the world. Unrivaled in length, it twists for 4,145 miles past primeval jungle, the haunts of big game, and the enigmatic stone faces of Pharaohs who forged the great civilization of Egypt. Ever reluctant to be outdone, the Nile whispers its final song through two great mouths as it dissolves at last into the Mediterranean Sea.For centuries, the majestic river defied intrepid adventurers who sought its origin. No one knows who first began the search, but an obscure German explorer ended it when, in 1937, he found the Nile's southernmost source on a lonely summit in Burundi.Today, giant dams regulate the Nile in the interests of an expanding population. Although impounded waters necessarily drowned much of the past in the Sudan and Egypt, the painstaking salvage of such temples as Abu Simbel testifies to modern builders' esteem for ancient artisans. The Society has sent photographers to record this mammoth, unprecedented undertaking.Author Bruce Brander, widely traveled Geographic staff member, explored the Nile and its basin by felucca, river-launch, truck, and camel. His lively chronicle brings into perspective a multitude of strange and fascinating facts. It tells of ancient kingdoms and of countries newly independent. It covers more than a million square miles--the area drained by the Nile.Mr. Brander's account of this liquid wonder of the world constitutes a skillful blend of geography, archaeology, anthropology, and history. It is the result not only of travel but also of sensitive curiosity about the diverse peoples and cultures along the banks of the Nile. "I scuffed into a spiderweb of lanes," he wrote. "As long as even the local wise man could remember, no foreigner had walked there before."

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