LibGuides: Primary Sources: Africa: Nile River

Book Sources: Nile River

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Along the Nile with General Grant by Elbert E. Farman
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Expedition to Discover the Sources of the White Nile, in the Years 1840, 1841 by Ferdinand Werne
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Translation of Expedition zur Entdeckung der Quellen des Weissen Nil (1840-1841)
Four Thousand Miles of African Travel by Alvan S. Southworth
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A personal record of a journey up the Nile and through the Soudan to the confines of Central Africa, embracing a discussion on the sources of the Nile, and an examination of the slave trade
Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
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With map and portraits, and numerous illustrations, chiefly from drawings by Captain Grant.
Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile (2nd edition) by John Hanning Speke
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My Winter on the Nile by Charles Dudley Warner
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The Nile Quest by Harry Johnston
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A record of the exploration of the Nile and its basin, by Sir Harry Johnston, with illustrations from drawings and photographs by the author and others, with maps by J. G. Bartholomew.
Travels in Central Africa, and Explorations of the Western Nile Tributaries by Mr. and Mrs. Petherick
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Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile (3d ed., corr. and enl) by James Bruce
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in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773
Who Discovered the Sources of the Nile? by Charles T. Beke
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A letter to Sir Roderick I. Murchison, K. C. B., etc., president of the Royal Geographical Society : with an appendix containing a letter to the Right Hon. the Lord Ashburton, when president of the Society / by Charles T. Beke, Ph.D., F.S.A., F.R.G.S., etc., author of 'Origines Biblicae,' 'The Sources of the Nile,' etc. Talbot Collection of British Pamphlets
Minutes of the discussion between the Nile Projects Commission and the Committee of Egyptian Engineers by Egypt
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At the public meeting held on 22nd June 1920

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