Red Nile : a biography of the world's greatest river / Robert Twigger.
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TextPublisher: London : Phoenix, 2014Copyright date: ©2013Edition: Paperback editionDescription: viii, 466 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 20 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781780220932Subject(s): Twigger, Robert, 1964- -- Travel -- Nile River | Nile River | Nile River -- HistoryDDC classification: 962 Summary: 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 most sustained creator. In this dazzling, idiosyncratic journey from ancient times to the Arab Spring, award-winning author Robert Twigger weaves a Nile narrative like no other. 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.
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Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2013.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [451]-453) and index.
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 most sustained creator. In this dazzling, idiosyncratic journey from ancient times to the Arab Spring, award-winning author Robert Twigger weaves a Nile narrative like no other. 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.
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