Author: MOOREHEAD, Alan
Title: The White Nile
Description: New York, Harper & Row, 1960. Hardcover. 8vo. Mustard cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 385pp. Illustrations, maps, map endpapers. Very good/very good. Mildest of jacket edgewear only; couple of black remainder marks to pages edges. Tight, quite attractive early (not first) printing of (to cite front jacket panel) "The story of the men who explored, pillaged, evangelized -- and eventually awakened -- the vast unknown spaces of Central Africa, from the slaving days of the 1850's to the final conquest of the Nile in 1900. .

Keywords: Travel & Exploration


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