Word: nile
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White Nile by Alan Moorehead. 368 pages. Harper & Row. $15. Handsomely and intelligently illustrated in this reissue, this decade-old chronicle of the river, its sources and explorers stands up as fine travel history. The heroes, of course, are the eccentric British explorers of the last century: Burton, Speke, Baker, Livingstone. Through primitive lands, fierce populations and climates, and frequent pestilence, they hunted the Nile to its source in Lake Victoria-as Moorehead puts it, "a sunburst of Victorian courage...
Eleven members of the Harvard heavyweight crew will leave for Egypt Tuesday to take part in two days of racing on the Nile...
...races on December 19 and 22 are part of the Nile River Festival and coach Harry Parker indicated that this out of season trip will be a time for fun and sightseeing as well as competition...
Summing up the trip, Parker said, "I don't know exactly what we are getting into. The last American crew to row on the Nile crashed into a dead camel...
...most pollution. It will be equally difficult to clean up the mess already at hand. The Mediterranean, for instance, is badly ventilated. Water flowing in from the Atlantic through the narrow Strait of Gibraltar is flushed by outflow from four "lungs" -the Adriatic, the Aegean and the Rhone and Nile rivers. But these lungs, as Britain's Lord Ritchie-Calder notes grimly, are now polluted...