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...Blue Nile, by Alan Moorehead. The author supplies a skillfully written companion volume to his excellent popular history The White Nile, tracing the trading and war making along the Nile's shores from the 18th century to the present...
...Single Girl, Brown (3) 5. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (7) 6. Who's in Charge Here?, Gardner (6) 7. Veeck-as in Wreck, Veeck (9) 8. JFK Coloring Book, Kannon and Roman 9. One Man's Freedom, Williams (8) 10. The Blue Nile, Moorehead...
...Blue Nile, by Alan Moorehead. In this rich historic tapestry (1791-1962), the author has woven with equal skill the look of the great river itself and the lives of the great figures - rapacious explorers, splendid Mamelukes, the invading Emperor Napoleon - who struggled along its shores...
...they can get loans to ameliorate their habitats. Publicly owned buildings and monuments are the government's responsibility. Says Minister of Culture Andre Malraux: "We cannot let our monuments fall to ruin when at this very moment Egypt is asking France to help save its temples on the Nile." Malraux having spoken, the Obelisk in the center of the Place de la Concorde (supposedly not cleaned since Ramses II had it inscribed in Luxor to the glory of Amon) is sporting a gantry of scaffolding, and the scrubdown has begun...
James Bruce, a gingerish Scottish aristocrat, was the first Briton to penetrate to the headwaters of the Blue Nile, at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Bruce's intrusion into the "nightmarish fantasy of Ethiopian affairs," where he casually joined as it suited him one or another of the chronic little local wars, is a historic comedy with tragic forebodings. Bruce himself was an arrogant braggart, and Moorehead has great fun with his efforts to discredit the stories of missionaries who had been there before...