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    The Nile: History's Greatest River

    The Nile by Tvedt, Terje;

    History's Greatest River

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
    • Date of Publication 15 May 2025
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781350522237
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages400 pages
    • Size 234x156x34 mm
    • Weight 620 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 20 colour illus
    • 700

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    Long description:

    "[A] vivid travelogue." New Statesman
    "Has much to offer." The Spectator
    "Sparks the imagination." BBC History Magazine
    "A
    fascinating study." BBC History Revealed Magazine
    "Essential reading." All About History
    "Valiant, valuable and entertaining." Times Literary Supplement

    The greatest river in the world has a long and fascinating history. Professor Terje Tvedt, one of the world's leading experts on the history of waterways, travels upstream along the river's mouth to its sources. The result is a travelogue through 5000 years and 11 countries, from the Mediterranean to Central Africa. This is the fascinating story of the immense economic, political and mythical significance of the river. Brimming with accounts of central characters in the struggle for the Nile - from Caesar and Cleopatra, to Churchill and Mussolini, and on to the political leaders of today, The Nile is also the story of water as it nourished a civilization.

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    Table of Contents:

    List of Plates
    Maps

    The Beginning of the Journey
    The Desert and the Delta
    Towards Karnak and the Nile Cataracts
    Nubia and the Country Where the Rivers Meet
    The Nile Wetlands and the New State
    The Country with the Great Lakes
    East of the Inland Ocean
    The Water Tower in the East
    The End of the Journey

    Notes
    References
    Index

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