THE WHITE NILE (385 pp.)—Alan Moorehead—Harper ($5.95). It is one of the niceties of geography that Lake Victoria is vastly larger and more important—being a principal source of the Nile—than Lake ...
The White Nile, by Alan Moorehead. In a highly readable history the author sketches—sometimes too sketchily—the exploits of the remarkable Victorians, including Stanley, Livingstone, Gordon and ...
THE FATAL IMPACT by Alan Moorehead. 230 pages. Harper & Row. $5.95. Out of the history of man’s ventures and adventures into the lives of the peoples of the Pacific Ocean, Alan Moorehead (The White ...
It was considered the source of life by the ancient Egyptians and has played a vital role in the country's history. The Nile flows from two separate sources: the White Nile from equatorial Africa and the Blue Nile from the Abyssinian highlands.
In the ancient Egyptian language, the Nile is called iteru, meaning "great river," represented by the hieroglyphs shown on the right. [3] The Nile has two major tributaries. The Blue Nile is the source of most of the Nile's water and fertile soil, but the White Nile is the longer of the two.
The Nile River boasts three significant tributaries: the White Nile, the Blue Nile, and the Atbara. The White Nile, the longest of the trio, begins with streams flowing into Lake Victoria, the largest tropical lake in the world.
Alan is a masculine given name in the English and Breton languages. Its surname form is Aland. [2] There is consensus that in modern English and French, the name is derived from the nomadic Iranian people known as the Alans, who settled in Western Europe during the Migration Period. [3]