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    Reference 3553 (1850)
    Category Other travel
    Author Moorehead, Alan
    Title The Blue Nile
    Publishing Information London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1962
    Description 1st Edition: xii, 308 pages, illustrated, b/w plates, drawings, 2 folding maps, illustrated end papers, dust jacket by G. E. Calthrope after Edward Lear (illustrator). Original covers in unclipped dust jacket, chipping and slight browning to top jacket and spine, minor spotting to page edges. Previous owner's signature to front facing end paper, contents clean. Alan Moorehead's classic account of the discovery of the source of the Blue Nile. Alan McCrae Moorehead OBE (1910-83), won an international reputation, during WW2 for his coverage of campaigns in the Middle East and Asia, the Mediterranean and Northwest Europe. He was twice mentioned in dispatches and was awarded the OBE. According to the critic Clive James 'Moorehead was there for the battles and the conferences through North Africa, Italy and Normandy all the way to the end'.
    Price £7.00
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