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Nile
by Collins, Robert O.
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- Comments: Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Quarto in Fine Condition with a Very Good Illustrated Dust Jacket. Tan cloth over spine with silver titles, black paper-wrapped boards, tight, solid and square sewn binding. Internals as new. 8 color plates, 9 maps, b/w photos throughout. A study of Africa's longest river, flowing more than 4000 miles through 9 countries, with its long history--even the pharaohs wrote about it, used it, studied it. An exploration of the lands and people of the Nile Basin, the age-old
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- ISBN-13: 9780300097641
- ISBN: 0300097646
- Publisher: Yale University Press
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"There may be an inordinate number of books about the Nile but this is one of the best. It is a delight to find an author so at ease with his subject, and one who effectively combines a wealth of social history, scientific learning and political understanding to create a comprehensive and comprehensible account of this most tyrannical of rivers."Collins, Robert O. is the author of 'Nile' with ISBN 9780300097641 and ISBN 0300097646.
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