Alan Moorehead

PREFACE A. L.N ATTEMPT has been made here to give a brief, simple and straightforvi'ard account of the Russian revolution in 1917, and the events that led up to it. Quite clearly it cannot hope to please everybody; there is no more controversial subject on earth, and the passage of nearly half...

VORBEMERKUNG Dies ist meines Wissens der erste Versuch einer vollständigen Darstellung von Montgomerys Lebensgeschichte; meine Quellen sind daher so vielfältig wie die Erzählung selbst. Außer einer Fülle von militärischen Schriftstücken, Briefen, Aufzeichnungen und Zeitungsartikeln war...

Előzéklapon tollal írt bejegyzés, folt. Moorehead has followed up his fascinating trek into Africa (The Blue Nile & The White Nile), with a short, but equally elegant "account of the invasion of the South Pacific, 1761-1840." The hero here, of course, is Captain James Cook, with Moorehead...

A gerinc mentén a fedlap sérült. A gerinc és a táblák megtörtek, elszíneződtek.

Gerince megtört, deformált, fedlapja kopottas, oldalai foltosak. Relive all the thrills and adventure of Alan Moorehead's classic bestseller The White Nile -- the daring exploration of the Nile River in the second half of the nineteenth century, which was at that time the most mysterious and...

CHAPTER ONE THE BLUE NILE "Egypt is an acquired country, the gift of the river." Herodotus. The Blue Nile pours very quietly and uneventfully out of Lake Tana in the northern highlands of Ethiopia. There is no waterfall or cataract, no definite current, nothing in fact to indicate that a part...