Explorers of the Nile
The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure. As Heared on BBC Radio 4
(Sprache: Englisch)
Zwischen 1856 und 1876 machten sich fünf Expeditionen auf, um die Quelle des weißen Nils ausfindig zu machen. Reisen in unkartographierte Gebiete, in ein Afrika, welches man heute nur noch aus alten Filmen kennt.Anhand von neuen Materialien erzählt Tim Jeal ihre epische Geschichte.
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Zwischen 1856 und 1876 machten sich fünf Expeditionen auf, um die Quelle des weißen Nils ausfindig zu machen. Reisen in unkartographierte Gebiete, in ein Afrika, welches man heute nur noch aus alten Filmen kennt.Anhand von neuen Materialien erzählt Tim Jeal ihre epische Geschichte.
Klappentext zu „Explorers of the Nile “
Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. Showing exceptional courage and extraordinary resilience, Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, Samuel Baker, David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley risked their lives and their reputations in the name of this quest. They journeyed through East and Central Africa into unmapped territory, discovered the great lakes Tanganyika and Victoria, navigated the upper Nile and the Congo, and suffered the ravages of flesh-eating ulcers, malaria and deep spear wounds. Using new research, Tim Jeal tells the story of these great expeditions, while also examining the tragic consequences which the Nile search has had on Uganda and Sudan to this day.
Explorers of the Nile is a gripping adventure story with an arresting analysis of Britain's imperial past and the Scramble for Africa.
Autoren-Porträt von Tim Jeal
Tim Jeal is an acclaimed novelist and biographer, whose Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer was published by Faber in 2007 and was a BBC Radio Four 'Book of the Week'. Stanley was named Sunday Times Biography of the Year, and, in the US, won the National Book Critics' Circle Award in Biography for 2007. Tim's memoir Swimming with my Father was published by Faber in 2004 and was also a BBC Radio Four 'Book of the Week' and was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize for autobiography.
In September 2011 Faber will publish Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure, which, thanks to much original research, will shed fascinating new light on the 'Search for the Nile' and its colonial consequences.
In 1973 Tim Jeal's Livingstone (1973) was selected as a 'Notable Book of the Year' by the New York Times Book Review and one of the 'Best and Brightest of the Year' by the Washington Post Book World. Livingstone formed the basis for a BBC TV documentary and a film for the Discovery Channel. It has never been out of print. Nor has Tim Jeal's Baden-Powell (1989), which was a 'Notable Book of the Year', and was chosen by Channel 4 for its 'Secret Lives' strand. In 1975 Tim was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Tim Jeal
- 2012, 544 Seiten, 8 farbige Abbildungen, 8 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 12,9 x 3,7 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Faber & Faber, London
- ISBN-10: 0571249760
- ISBN-13: 9780571249763
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „Explorers of the Nile “
"[A] wonderfully entertaining and authoritative account of the search for the Nile and its consequences...There is something intensely moving about the way in which Jeal has sought to restore Speke's reputation."--John Preston, "Sunday Telegraph"--John Preston "Sunday Telegraph "
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