To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa
10 best books like To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa (Pat Shipman): The White Nile, Malaria Dreams: An African Adventure, Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia, Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations, The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River, Mistress of the Elgin Marbles: A Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin, A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton, Looking for Lovedu: A Woman's Journey Through Africa, The Lost World of the Kalahari, The Sea and the Jungle
| Author | Alan Moorehead |
| ISBN | 0060956399 |
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 impenetrable region on earth. Capturing in breathtaking prose the larger-than-life...
Malaria Dreams is a book about the author and his friend's trip from West Africa to the Mediterranean in a questionable car, and it's well written. So why the one star?
I like adventure travel and adventure travel books better than the next guy usually- depending on who the next guy actually is,...
| Author | Janet Wallach |
| ISBN | 1400096197 |
Turning away from the privileged world of the "eminent Victorians," Gertrude Bell (1868—1926) explored, mapped, and excavated the world of the Arabs. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab leaders, and her connections and...
| Author | Georgina Howell |
| ISBN | 0374161623 |
A marvelous tale of an adventurous life of great historical import
She has been called the female Lawrence of Arabia, which, while not inaccurate, fails to give Gertrude Bell her due. She was at one time the most powerful woman in the British Empire: a nation builder, the driving force behind...
| Author | Dan Morrison |
| ISBN | 0670021989 |
A spectacular modern-day adventure along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea
With news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a childhood friend who'd never been off American soil and set out from Uganda,...
Mistress of the Elgin Marbles: A Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin
| Author | Susan Nagel |
| ISBN | 0060545550 |
The remarkable Mary Nisbet was the Countess of Elgin in Romantic-era Scotland and the wife of the seventh Earl of Elgin. When Mary accompanied her husband to diplomatic duty in Turkey, she changed history. She helped bring the smallpox vaccine to the Middle East, struck a seemingly impossible deal...
| Author | Mary S. Lovell |
| ISBN | 0393320391 |
Their marriage was both improbable and inevitable. Isabel Arundell was a schoolgirl, the scion of England's most distinguished Catholic family. When she first saw him while walking at a seaside resort, Richard Burton had already made his mark as a linguist (he was fluent in twenty-nine languages),...
| Author | Ann Jones |
| ISBN | 0375705333 |
The adventure began when a young British photographer, Kevin Muggleton, suggested driving from one end of Africa to the other–“You know, the old ‘Cape to Cairo’ sort of thing.” For the renowned feminist writer Ann Jones, it soon became an expedition with a mission: to find the legendary...
| Author | Laurens van der Post |
| ISBN | 0792481860 |
The distinguished explorer and writer recounts his rediscovery of the Bushmen, outcast survivors from Stone Age Africa. Faced with constant attack from all the peoples who followed them, the last of the Bushmen have retreated to the scorching depths of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. After...
| Author | H.M. Tomlinson |
| ISBN | 0810160110 |
Considered a masterpiece of travel literature for nearly a century, The Sea and the Jungle is a wise and witty book of firsts: ostensibly a lighthearted story of a Londoner's first ocean voyage, it is also a carefully crafted journalistic account of the first successful ascent of the Amazon River and...
| Author | Stephen Taylor |
| ISBN | 0393050858 |
What became of the castaways was stranger than fiction...and more than decent Englishmen could bear. In the summer of 1783 the grandees of the East India Company were horrified to learn that one of their finest ships, the 741-ton Grosvenor, had been lost on the wild and unexplored coast of southeast...
| Author | Todd Balf |
| ISBN | 0609609890 |
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blurb - The Darkest Jungle tells the harrowing story of America's first ship canal exploration across a narrow piece of land in Central America called the Darien, a place...
Emilie Du Chatelet: Daring Genius of the Enlightenment
| Author | Judith P. Zinsser |
| ISBN | 0143112686 |
The captivating biography of the French aristocrat who balanced the demands of her society with passionate affairs of the heart and a brilliant life of the mind
Although today she is best known for her fifteen-year liaison with Voltaire, Gabrielle Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise...
| Author | Ben Macintyre |
| ISBN | 0374529574 |
The riveting story that inspired Kipling's classic tale and a John Huston movie
The true story of Josiah Harlan, a Pennsylvania Quaker and the first American ever to enter Afghanistan, has never been told before. Soldier, spy, doctor, naturalist, traveler and writer, Josiah Harlan wanted...
| Author | Jane Fletcher Geniesse |
| ISBN | 0375757465 |
Freya Stark—traveler, explorer, Arabist, and woman of letters—began the extraordinary adventures that would glamorize her—and would catapult her into public life for the next sixty years—in 1927. And with the publication of The Valley of the Assassins in 1934, her legend was launched.
Leaving...
This is a book about a world in a life. Conceived in Jamaica and possibly mixed-race, Elizabeth Marsh (1735-1785) traveled farther and was more intimately affected by developments across the globe than the vast majority of men. She was the first woman to publish in English on Morocco, and the first to...
The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery, and the Search for Timbuktu
| Author | Anthony Sattin |
| ISBN | 0312336438 |
London, 1788: a group of British gentlemen---geographers, scholars, politicians, humanitarians, and traders---decide it is time to solve the mysteries of Africa's unknown interior regions. Inspired by the Enlightenment quest for knowledge, they consider it a slur on the age that the interior...
| Author | Robert Whitaker |
| ISBN | 0385337205 |
A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
The year is 1735. A decade-long expedition to South America is launched by a team of French scientists racing to measure the circumference of the earth and to reveal the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery and...
Giles Milton's first book, The Riddle and the Knight, is a fascinating account of the legend of Sir John Mandeville, a long-forgotten knight who was once the most famous writer in medieval Europe. Mandeville wrote a book about his voyage around the world that became a beacon that lit the way for the great...
| Author | Nina Burleigh |
| ISBN | 0060597674 |
Little more than two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. Its history and peoples were the subject of much myth and speculation—and no region aroused greater interest than Egypt, where reports...
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
| Author | Tim Jeal |
| ISBN | 0300149352 |
Nothing obsessed explorers of the mid-nineteenth century more than the quest to discover the source of the White Nile. It was the planet's most elusive secret, the prize coveted above all others. Between 1856 and 1876, six larger-than-life men and one extraordinary woman accepted the challenge....
| Author | Lesley Blanch |
| ISBN | 0786710306 |
For the four women included in this classic volume of biography, the wilder shores of love lay east of their native Europe: in Arabia, for Victorian Isabel Arundell, who married the defiantly unorthodox social outlaw and adventurer Burton of Arabia; in a harem, for Aimee Dubucq de Rivery, a convent...
| Author | Daniel Liebowitz |
| ISBN | 0393059030 |
The trip isn't bad enough - a 3000 mile walk in an equatorial climate with no food - the crew has to put up with Stanley! He is a nightmare of egotism, buck passing, cruel punishment, petty intrigue and verbal abuse. The men starve, yes to death, as he squirrels away food and metes out lashings that could kill...
