Red Nile: The Biography of the World’s Greatest River (78 page)

The best river swimmers in the world. Boys shooting the rapids of the Nile on logs. c.1901.

The inundation: a scene you’ll never see today now the Nile is dammed. Cairo, c.1898.

Gordon had many chances to leave. Finally, it was just too late.
General Gordon’s
Last Stand, by George William Joy.

Sadat tried shouting at them to stop . . . Egyptian soldiers fire at President Anwar Al-Sadat while reviewing a military parade on 6 October 1981.

At the Murchison Falls the whole Nile is forced through a six-metre gap, falling a height of only forty-three metres.

When not in flood, the Blue Nile is dwarfed by the White Nile. In flood, this is where the Red Nile begins. Aerial photograph of the confluence of the Blue and White Nile, taken from the Columbia space shuttle.

By Robert Twigger

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Red Nile: A Biography of the World’s Greatest River

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Robert Twigger is a British author, poet and adventurer. After attending Oxford University he trained with the Tokyo Riot Police, which became the subject of his bestselling book
Angry White Pyjamas
. He has been awarded the Newdigate Award for Literature and the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. He led the first expedition to cross the Great Sand Sea of the Egyptian Sahara solely on foot and another that was the first since 1793 to cross western Canada in a birchbark canoe. He is the author of nine books, both fiction and non-fiction, as well as several collections of poetry.

www.roberttwigger.com

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First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Ebook first published in 2013 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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