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"So much begins on the banks of the Nile: all religion, all life, all stories, the script we write in, the language we speak, the gods, the legends and the names of stars. This mighty river that flows through a quarter of all Africa has been history's greatest and most sustained creator. In this dazzling, idiosyncratic journey from ancient times to the Arab Spring, Robert Twigger weaves a Nile narrative like no other. Along the way we meet crocodiles and caliphs, nineteenth-century adventurers and twentieth-century novelists, biblical prophets and classical lovers, dam-builders and crusaders. As he navigates a meandering course through the history of the world's greatest river, he plucks the most intriguing, colourful and dramatic stories - truly a Nile red in tooth and claw. The result is both an epic journey through the whole sweep of human and pre-human history, and an intimate biography of the curious life of this great river, overflowing with stories of excess, love, passion, splendour and violence."--Cover.
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History, New York Times reviewed, Travel, Nile river and valley, ExplorersPlaces
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Red Nile: a biography of the world's greatest river
2014, St. Martin's Press
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1250052335 9781250052339
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Red Nile: a biography of the world's greatest river
2013, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-453) and index.
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