The Nile quest : $b a record of the exploration of the Nile and its basinJohnston, Harry
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The Nile quest : $b a record of the exploration of the Nile and its basin
Johnston, Harry
Nile River
A VOYAGE TO ABYSSINIA, by Father Jerome Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit,
from the French of LE GRAND. London, 1735.
NARRATIVE OF THE PORTUGUESE EMBASSY TO ABYSSINIA, 1520–1527. (Hakluyt
Society’s publications, Vol. 44, 1881.)
L’HYDROGRAPHIE AFRICAINE AU SEIZIÈME SIÈCLE, D’APRÈS LES PREMIÈRES
EXPLORATIONS PORTUGUAISES. (Lisbon, 1878.)
A DESCRIPTION OF THE EAST and some other Countries, Vol. 1 (Egypt),
by Richard Pococke, LL.D., F.R.S. London, 1743.
TRAVELS IN UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT, by C. S. Sonnini de Manoncourt
(translated by Henry Hunter). London, 1799.
TRAVELS TO DISCOVER THE SOURCE OF THE NILE IN 1768, 1773, by James
Bruce, in 5 vols. Edinburgh, 1790.
(Also an excellent abridgment in 1 vol., published in 1798.)
A Second Edition in 7 vols., 1805, is considered the best and
fullest account of Bruce’s travels, with some of the errors
corrected.
TRAVELS IN AFRICA, EGYPT, AND SYRIA, 1792–1798, by William George
Browne. London, 1800. (Darfur, Nubia.)
THE SOURCES OF THE NILE, by Charles T. Beke. London, 1860.
THE STORY OF AFRICA, by Dr. Robert Brown, Vols. 2 and 3, 1893, 1894.
(A most useful and trustworthy compilation.) London, Cassel.
VOYAGE À MEROE, au Fleuve Blanc, etc., by Frederic Cailliaud. 4 vols.
Paris, 1826.
A VOYAGE TO ABYSSINIA, by Henry Salt, 1814.
JOURNAL OF NAVIGATION ON THE BAHR-EL-ABIAD OR THE WHITE NILE, by A.
Linant de Bellefonds, 1828. African Association, London.
TRAVELS IN NUBIA, by John Louis Buckhardt. London, 1819.
REISEN IN NUBIEN, KORDOFAN, etc., by Eduard Rüppell. Frankfurt a. m.,
1829.
_From 1840 to the Present Day_
PREMIER VOYAGE À LA RECHERCHE DES SOURCES DU BAHR-AL-ABIAD OU NIL
BLANC: Journal de Voyage par Selim Bimbashi. _Bulletin_, Société
de Géographie. Paris, 1840.
DOCUMENTS ET OBSERVATIONS SUR LE COURS DU BAHR-AL-ABIAD, by D’Arnaud
Binbachi. Paris, 1843.
KHARTUM AND THE BLUE AND WHITE NILES (Journeys of Andrew Melly), by
George Melly. London, 1851. 2 vols.
EXPEDITION ZUR ENTDECKUNG DER QUELLEN DES WEISZEN NIL (1840, 1841),
by Ferdinand Werne. Berlin, 1848. (With admirable map of the
White Nile.)
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, Vol. 17. (Brun-Rollet on
the Sobat River.)
ANNALES DE VOYAGE(?), by Andrea de Bono. Paris, July, 1862.
LE FLEUVE BLANC, by Jules Poncet. 1863.
EGYPT, THE SUDAN, AND CENTRAL AFRICA, etc., by John Petherick. 1861.
TRAVELS IN CENTRAL AFRICA AND EXPLORATION OF THE WESTERN NILE
TRIBUTARIES, 2 vols., by Mr. and Mrs. Petherick. 1869.
DIE DEUTSCHER EXPEDITION IN OST AFRICA, 1861–1862, by Heuglin and
Munzinger, in Petermann’s Geographische Mittheilungen, No. 13.
Heuglin also writes on Miss Tinne’s expedition in the same
periodical, No. 15, 1865, and gives further notes on the White
Nile.
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