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...BLUE NILE (308 pp.)-Alan Moorehead-Harper...
...Shakespeare well knew, the sun's heat bred serpents and other monsters out of the mud of the Nile. With The Blue Nile, this ancient river of mystery has now been made the object of two studies that employ all the modern arts of research to dispel myths and muddy misconceptions. Alan Moorehead, an extraordinary journalist-turned-historian who examined the history of one of the river's sources in The White Nile, tells in his latest book what succeeds the great civilizations-Egyptian and Greek-that rose and fell with the Blue Nile as its annual floods...
...modern imagination. At a time when the white man is leaving Africa, it details and dramatizes the manner of his arrival on that vast continent. As history goes, it is a short story and, indeed, a very disquieting one. What Moorehead calls the European reconnaissance of the Nile did not begin until the closing years of the 18th century. "For well over a thousand years the great civilization of ancient Egypt had been forgotten and its writings were a closed book, nor did there appear any bright prospects for the future. The Mamelukes [the ruling class of Egypt] had made...
...rocket-rattling was a forerunner to this week's celebration of the tenth anniversary of Nasser's revolution. The program is elaborate: a major Nasser speech before a quarter-million Egyptians in Cairo's Republican Square, a military parade along the boulevards of the Nile Corniche featuring Soviet T-54 tanks of the Egyptian army and, overhead, Soviet TY-16 jet bombers with Egyptian pilots. Amid fireworks, throngs hurried to the fairgrounds on Gezira island, wandered through airy pavilions and outdoor exhibits crammed with Egyptian-made products, including Fiat cars, five-ton trucks, Ma Griffe perfume...
...Villages. A large part of the answer will come from Egypt's 4,000 villages. Most of them resemble one called Barsha, which lies under an umbrella of bending palms on the banks of the upper Nile. Visiting it last week, TIME Correspondent James Wilde found a cluster of mud-brick hovels and 4,000 people barely subsisting on 200 acres of farm land, probably unchanged in most respects since the days of the Pharaohs. The streets are cluttered by famished yellow dogs and skinny children with red-lidded eyes half-closed by trachoma and stomachs distended by bilharziasis...