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In the 1st half of the 19th century, only a small handful of Westerners had ventured into the regions watered by the Nile River on its long journey from Lake Tana in Abyssinia to the Mediterranean--lands that had been forgotten since Roman times, or had never been known at all. In The Blue Nile , Alan Moorehead continues the classic, thrilling narration of adventure he began in The White Nile , depicting this exotic place thru the lives of four explorers so daring they can be considered among the world's original adventurers--each acting & reacting in separate expeditions against a bewildering background of slavery & massacre, political upheaval & all-out war. Overall, this book highlights the dominant roles played by James Bruce, Napoleon, Muhammad Ali & Emperor Theodore of Ethiopia in the turbulent history of the Blue Nile