Samuel White Baker

The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia

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Produktbeschreibung

The renowned nineteenth-century British explorer Samuel W. Baker describes his travels in search of the source of the Nile.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 680
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 944g
• ISBN-13: 9781108033015
• ISBN-10: 1108033016
• Artikelnr.: 33625472

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Above the cataract
2. The Cairo dragoman Mahomet
3. Wild asses of the desert
4. Route from Cassala to Souakim
5. The storm
6. Sheik Achmet Abou Sinn
7. The departure
8. The plagues of Egypt
9. Form a raft with the sponging bath
10. A few notes at Éhétilla
11. The ford
12. Old Neptune joins the party
13. The lions find the buffalo
14. A foreboding of evil
15. Antelopes on the Settite
16. Abou Do is greedy
17. We reach the Roy¿n
18. A camel falls, and dies
19. Send a party to reconnoitre
20. Arrival at Metemma, or Gallabat
21. Fertility of the country on the banks of the Rahad
22. We leave the Dinder
Index.